UK coronavirus LIVE: Cases up 43% in highest jump since May, as students urged not to share bedrooms

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Almost 10,000 people tested positive for coronavirus in the last week of August in the highest jump since May, new figures show.

A total of 9,864 new people tested positive in the week to September 2, according to the latest Test and Trace figures – an increase of 43 per cent in positive cases on the previous week, and the highest weekly number since Test and Trace was launched at the end of May.

It comes after a minister appealed to university students not to spread coronavirus in their “bedrooms”. Health minister Lord Bethell urged young people heading to universities across Britain to take “responsibility” in their social life for not fuelling the surging number of cases.

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson’s ambitious mass coronavirus testing plans which could keep hopes of Christmas parties alive would cost as much as £100 billion, according to reports.

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