In the last 24 hours, 50,081 new cases of covid have been reported by the UK government.
10,070,841 cases of coronavirus have been recorded by the government since the start of the pandemic.
160 more deaths were reported taking the total number of lives lost to covid to 144,593.
So far 50,875,712 (88.5%) people have had their first dose, 46,255,081 (80.4%) their second dose and 16,779,656(29.2%) have had their booster jabs admisitered.