The latest weekly data from the ONS survey. In the week ending 27-28 May 2022:

One in 70 people in England had Covid (down from one in 60)
One in 75 in Wales had Covid (down from one in 55)
One in 75 in Northern Ireland had Covid (up from one in 80)
One in 50 in Scotland had Covid (down from one in 40)

Some data:

England cases 6,703 (5,860 last Monday)
England deaths 17 (35)
Patients admitted in England 531 (428 on the 29th)
Patients in hospital in England 4,108 (4,036 on the 31st)
Patients in ventilation beds 116 (119 on the 31st)
Vaccinated up to and including 6 June 2022:
First dose: 44,994,083
Second dose: 42,048,616
Booster: 33,044,665

All of the indicators are on a bit of a plateau now.

Here are the headlines from the ONS weekly survey. In the week ending 2nd June 2022:

One in 70 people in England had Covid (last week one in 70)
One in 75 in Wales had Covid (last week one in 75)
One in 65 in Northern Ireland had Covid (up from one in 75)
One in 40 in Scotland had Covid (up from one in 50)

A small increase in cases which is being reported in the media.

Some data for England today:

England cases 7,002 (8,311 last Sunday)
England deaths down 20.7% week on week
Patients admitted in England 583 (443 on the 4th)
Patients in hospital in England 4,602 (4,126 on the 6th)
Patients in ventilation beds 128 (120 on the 6th)
Vaccinated up to and including 12 June 2022:
First dose: 45,020,238
Second dose: 42,080,334
Booster: 33,090,435

Aside from deaths, the other indicators continue to rise slowly.

I was reading that BA.4 and BA.5 are now taking over from BA.1 and that we should expect to see an increase because they are much more infectious still. Do you think that this is behind the "rising slowly"?

It would be a reasonable explanation. Hopefully summer will keep a lid on it.

I'm still struggling a bit having got it just over 2 weeks ago. Triple jabbed. Could explain some of the increase in numbers, with this being slightly worse than earlier variants? Assuming I have one of the latest anyway.

All other things being equal, a more infectious variant will lead to a rise in cases. Someone such as corporate-wage-slave is likely to have a handle on the latest data and may be able to provide a more detailed hypothesis, but my suspicion is that it is as lhrsfo and DaveS suggest upthread: recent increase in cases is driven by increased transmissibility, rather than anything else

I think more important factor is the high level of protection in the UK due to vaccinations and prior infections. That is very clearly the overriding reason we have continued to have no restrictions at all for many months now, and patients on ventilation and deaths just continued to fall.

Yes, I've been borderline on having to go into hospital for it and I feel vaccinations played a big part in that.

I hope you recover fully soon. Like the salad in a lounge, a virus can hang around for much longer than it should.

Vaccines waning is also likely to have an effect.

You need to get the second boosters going for younger ages, like the US did for those over 50 three months ago....

Thanks!

How much appetite would there be? I was quick to have my first three but no interest in having any more. Does it really even matter about infections now that it’s Omicron?