{"id":649626,"date":"2022-08-31T13:01:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=649626"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:06:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:06:40","slug":"uk-covid-19-update-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/uk-covid-19-update-49\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Covid-19 Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Covid-19 has continued to fall in the UK, the latest figures from the National Statistics suggest that around 1.4 million people have Covid-19 in the UK. This is down from the previous week as 1.7 million were believed to of had Covid-19 last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In total, more than 187k people in the UK have had Covid-19 this week, meaning they have tested positive recently. The number of cases has decreased however as fewer and fewer cases keep happening across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Booster jabs are set to be offered to those who are in need of extra protection against the virus, however this will happen during the winter time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-649646 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/USE-THIS.png\" alt=\"Covid-19 stats\" width=\"1066\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/USE-THIS.png 1066w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/USE-THIS-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/USE-THIS-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/USE-THIS-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/USE-THIS-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1066px) 100vw, 1066px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This suggest that numbers are slowly going back down to where a lot of people thought they would be in a few years and Covid-19 is looking like the next common cold in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>For more UK News, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/category\/uk-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 everything Five Minutes Spare, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"jss5431 jss73 jss75 jss74\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/anna-zasimova\">ANNA ZASIMOVA<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 has continued to fall in the UK, the latest figures from the National Statistics suggest that around 1.4 million people have Covid-19 in the UK. This is down from the previous week as 1.7 million were believed to of had Covid-19 last week. In total, more than 187k people in the UK have had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":649647,"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-649626","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\/649626","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=649626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649648,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649626\/revisions\/649648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}