There have been 43,676 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, according to the latest data
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This means there have been 303,071 people who have tested positive for the virus in the last seven days, – up by 11.1% on the week before.
There have also been 149 deaths of people within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, taking the weekly total to 926 – a 9.4% fall on the previous seven-day period.
Around 80.4% of people over the age of 12 are fully vaccinated, while 88.4% have had a single dose of a Covid jab and 27.8% have received a third booster dose.