increase sharply in the media his opponents will say he s putting politics ahead of health. well let s look at the latest government data now there are a lot of figures that still aren t available because of the holiday period. but what we do know today is that there were 98,515 new infections recorded in england alone in the latest 24 hour period. and more than 100 thousand cases a day were recorded in england on christmas day and boxing day. 143 deaths were recorded in england, that s of people who died within 28 days of a positive test. in total nearly 32 and a half million people have had a booster that s 56.5 per cent of the uk population, aged over 12. so no new data from wales or northern ireland over christmas. but scotland has today published its figures for the last three days which confusingly haven t yet been included in the uk totals. but what they do show is a record rise in new cases in scotland over the christmas break.