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The UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued a fresh Covid warning as the dominant 'Stratus' variant continues to spread.

The latest data shows that the number of confirmed cases across the UK has risen by 22.2% across a seven-day period up to September 24 (the latest available figures), while there was a 5.1% rise in deaths in the space of a week.

Hospital admissions from the virus are also on the rise, with some 1,162 patients admitted to hospital with Covid in the week ending August 31 – a 15.6 per cent increase from the seven days before.

It comes as a new variant, dubbed 'Stratus', has become the dominant strain of the virus in the UK. Also known as XFG, the Stratus variant and its spin-offs, XFG.3 and XFG.3.1, account for around 75 per cent of Covid cas

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