{"id":631282,"date":"2022-07-22T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=631282"},"modified":"2022-07-22T15:17:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:17:24","slug":"covid-19-uk-cases-continue-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/covid-19-uk-cases-continue-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: UK Cases Continue to Rise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Covid-19 in the UK is on the rise yet again. There is a lot of people in the UK contacting Covid-19 for the second, third, and or the fourth time and there has been a massive 7% increase in cases since the beginning of the Living with Covid-19 rule.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The virus has gone up by a quarter of a million, meaning 7%, on the week before. This means there is an estimated 3.5 million Covid-19 infections in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people testing positive in the UK has risen since the start of June however the rate of rising is showing that it is slowing down slightly.<\/p>\n<p>The ONS data is always a couple of weeks behind the curve for new infections.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-631283 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/126012969_optimised-ons_uk_timeseries_22jul-nc-002.jpg\" alt=\"Covid-19 graph from BBC\" width=\"976\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/126012969_optimised-ons_uk_timeseries_22jul-nc-002.jpg 976w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/126012969_optimised-ons_uk_timeseries_22jul-nc-002-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/126012969_optimised-ons_uk_timeseries_22jul-nc-002-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In the latest report, for the week ending 13 July, the ONS estimates Covid rates were:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"unordered-list-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-1o5f7ft-BulletListContainer e5tfeyi0\">\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li>One in 17 in England &#8211; up from one in 19 the week before<\/li>\n<li>One in 17 in Wales &#8211; the same as the previous week<\/li>\n<li>One in 20 in Northern Ireland &#8211; down from one in 17<\/li>\n<li>One in 15 in Scotland &#8211; up from one in 16<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nearly 8 out of 10 Covid infections in the UK are the new sub-varients of Omicron, called BA.4 and BA.5. Mainly BA.5.<\/p>\n<p>People are still able to catch Covid if they have had it before, therefore the rules stay the same with testing and more.<\/p>\n<p>For more news stories click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Covid-19 news click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/tag\/covid-19\/\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the story, all about Covid-19, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/covid-19-the-virus-of-2020\/\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"jss1618 jss73 jss75 jss74\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/angellodeco\">angellodeco<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 in the UK is on the rise yet again. There is a lot of people in the UK contacting Covid-19 for the second, third, and or the fourth time and there has been a massive 7% increase in cases since the beginning of the Living with Covid-19 rule.\u00a0 The virus has gone up by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":631284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1844,2071],"class_list":["post-631282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-covid-19","tag-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631285,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631282\/revisions\/631285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}