An estimated 1.7 million people had coronavirus across the UK last week, the highest number since comparable records began last year, new figures suggest.
The new Office for National Statistics (ONS) data covers people who tested positive for COVID-19 outside hospital or a care setting during the week ending 19 December.
The figure was highest in London, where most cases of the Omicron variant have been detected, at a rate of one in 20 people