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		</div><p>The UK recording the highest single-day figure of coronavirus cases since the outbreak began has been described as a “stark warning” by a top public health official.</p>
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<p>As of 9am on Thursday, there had been a further 6,634 lab-confirmed cases of Covid-19 across the four nations, taking the overall number of cases confirmed to 416,363.</p>
<p>Experts have previously warned that describing the daily figure as a record could be “misleading” as it is not clear how many people were actually infected during the height of the first wave due to a lack of community testing at the time.</p>
<blockquote><p>This is the highest number recorded and a stark warning for us all. The signals are clear</p></blockquote>
<p>Testing capacity has greatly increased since then.<br />
But Professor Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said the rise in new cases provides a “clear” signal and insisted people must follow the stricter measures announced this week in order to help control the virus.</p>
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<p>She said: “This is the highest number recorded and a stark warning for us all. The signals are clear.<br />
“Positivity rates are rising across all age groups and we’re continuing to see spikes in rates of admission to hospital and critical care.</p>
<p>“We must all follow the new measures that have been brought in to help control the virus and download the new NHS Covid-19 App which is the fastest way of knowing when you’re at risk.”<br />
The app launched in England and Wales on Thursday.<br />
Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own apps, called Protect Scotland and StopCOVID NI respectively.</p>
<p>The Government also said a further 40 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Thursday, bringing the UK’s total deaths to 41,902.</p>
<p>Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have now been 57,600 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.</p>
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