The figures from Sunday October 10 represent a weekly rise in coronavirus cases of 4,135, up by around 20 percent. On Sunday October 3, the UK recorded 30,439 cases and 43 deaths.
Professor Tim Spector, lead scientist on the ZOE Covid study app, recently warned fully vaccinated Brits suffering their “worst colds ever” could have Covid without realising.
In the UK, 49,158,835 people have had their first vaccine dose, while 45,168,344 are fully vaccinated.
Research from the ZOE Covid App showed the top five symptoms for those who have had both Covid vaccines but still contract the virus are a headache, a runny nose, sneezing, a sore throat and loss of smell.
Prof Spector said: “The UK still has more cases than most of Europe and I believe this is for two main reasons; the first is a lack of masks and social distancing and the second is because we’re ignorant of the symptoms.”
Speaking to The Mirror, Prof. Spector said classic Covid symptoms are more rare post-vaccine rollout.
He told told the outlet: “We should be looking out for things like sore throat, runny nose and sneezing.
“The classic three - cough, fever and anosmia are rarer these days, yet the government has done nothing.
"By not updating advice, we’re letting people into care homes, schools, workplaces and large gatherings displaying known signs of Covid.
"Roughly, 1 in 80 people in the UK have Covid. If we don’t wake up to the fact these cold-like symptoms could be Covid, we will continue to keep numbers high, putting unnecessary strain on an exhausted NHS."
It comes after Dr Jenny Harries warned Brits who catch both Covid and the flu are “twice as like to die”, according to early evidence.
She told Sky's Trevor Phillips on Sunday 2021 will mark the first time the UK experiences the virus “in any real numbers” at the same time as Covid.
Dr Harries added: “So the risks of catching both together still remain.
“And if you do that, then early evidence suggests that you are twice as likely to die from having two together, than just having Covid alone.
“So I think it's an uncertain winter ahead – that's not a prediction, it’s an uncertain feature – but we do know that flu cases have been lower in the previous year so immunity and the strain types are a little more uncertain.”
Dr Harries also said the dominance of the Delta variant globally has caused other Covid variants to “become extinct”, but warned we still need to “stay alert”.
The NHS aims to immunise a record 35 million people this winter.
Free flu shots are available for about 30 million frontline health and social care workers, people aged 50 and over, children up to school year 11, those who are pregnant and those at clinical risk.
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