NEW: Sunday update of UK Covid data.

I’ll keep it short, but it’s not good. Test positivity in London has now hit 27%. The climb from 17% to 27% has taken 5 days. In March it took 4.

Here’s our latest story, from me & @SarahNev https://www.ft.com/content/71140ee7-8e47-4499-9fcf-2d23d5c7d94f

Daily deaths are climbing fast in and around London, and may pass spring peaks in east & south-east just from those already infected.

Southern surge is driving a resurgence in UK total, which has passed 500 per day for 6 straight days (and those numbers will be revised upwards).

Here are yesterday’s numbers for context, and for more detail on what’s happening in hospitals https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1345459896335085572