The number of new Covid cases has risen for the second day in a row in Britain but dipped by almost 3 percent from this time last week.
Today 30,215 people were confirmed as having tested positive, compared to last Thursday's figure of 31,117.
A further 86 fatalities were announced today - one more than the 85 logged a week ago.
The data released this afternoon also shows positive cases are down by 10.4 percent in the last seven days.
Yesterday there were 29,312 new official infections and 119 deaths within 28 days of testing positive, as the virus fatalities surpassed 130,000 in Britain.
The initial sharp decline in new infections since July 19 had puzzled experts, with a huge surge in new cases expected after restrictions were lifted on Freedom Day.
A total of 46,928,033 people have had at least one dose of the vaccine in Britain, and 38,733,334 are fully inoculated.
It comes as an estimated 945,000 people have reported experiencing Long Covid in the last four weeks, figures from the Office of National Statistics show.
At least 20 percent of those with the new condition say their ability to undertake day-to-day activities had been "limited a lot".
The stats show of the people who self-reported having long covid, 835,000 - more than 88% - first had (or suspected they had) coronavirus at least 12 weeks previously.
And 380,000 - more than 40 percent - first had (or suspected they had) coronavirus at least one year previously.
Symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities of 611,000 people - more than 64 percent of those with self-reported long covid and 182,000 .
And around 19 percent reported that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been "limited a lot".
The figures released this morning by the Office of National Statistics show figures up to Sunday, July 4 2021.
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Lincoln continues to have the highest rate, with 744 new cases in the seven days to July 31 - the equivalent of 749.3 per 100,000 people.
This is up from 337.4 in the seven days to July 24.
