for now, not all the vacancies match where the jobless are nor their skills, but for those workers with in demand skills such as here in construction, wages are starting to rise. faisal islam, bbc news. let s look at the latest government figures on the coronavirus. there were 26,852 new infections recorded in the latest 2a hour period, which means on average there were 29,564 new cases per day in the last week. 6303 people are currently in hospital, with the virus. 170 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours that s the highest number since march. and there was an average of 93 deaths a day in the past week. as far as the jabs go, 89.6% of adults in the uk have now had theirfirst