Advertisement Britain's daily coronavirus cases have continued to fall by three per cent week-on-week despite officials testing hundreds of thousands more people. Department of Health data showed there were 5,758 Covid cases in the past 24 hours, down slightly on 5,926 last Wednesday. Infections began to creep upwards last week following a massive spike in Covid tests being carried out because of schools finally being allowed to reopen in England. But the test positivity rate — one of the best ways of tracking the size of the outbreak when swabbing increases — has continued to fall. Daily Covid deaths fell by a quarter week-on-week, today's figures show. A total of 141 fatalities were announced by the Department of Health, which was 49 fewer than the 190 at the same time last week.