Iran Press/Europe: "The percentage of people testing positive has continued to increase sharply in London, the East of England, and the southeast; London now has the highest percentage of people testing positive," the ONS said.
Separately on Thursday, England’s Test and Trace service said it had recorded a 58% week-on-week increase in the number of positive COVID-19 cases detected.
It said during the week Dec. 10-16, 139,332 positive cases were transferred to its contact tracers, 88.1% of whom were reached and told to self-isolate, a slight rise on 87.5% recorded in the previous week.
The proportion of the contacts of positive cases reached remained consistent at 92.6%, it said.
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