In terms of outbreaks/incidents being managed by PHE health protection teams, a small increase in primary schools
And also a rise in care homes after a drop the week before.
Plus the concerning increase in hospital incidents continues.
Hospital admissions are rising again - mainly in SE, London and EoE - and will continue to do so predictably as case rates among more vulnerable adults increase.
And as the gov.uk data shows, there are now more COVID patients in hospital than at the peak of the second wave.
This is not good news. NHS winter has barely started.
ICU admissions is more of a mixed picture by region, but general trend is predictably now up again.
And while deaths are still falling following the second lockdown, they will sadly also soon start trending up again, but this time from a far higher baseline than before.
I know this is all gloomy, but it's just all rising so soon again after lockdown.
Christmas is such an important time but please don't make trips or social visits that can wait.
People are being vaccinated every day. There is cause for optimism, it just needs a bit more time.
Also, there's still hardly any flu and people are also getting those vaccines as well.
A 5% drop in the number of people getting tested this week (to 1.66m), but a 28% drop in cases.
Drawing conclusions about falling positivity rates over time is getting increasingly tricky as testing among asymptomatic people is rolled out. As have said previously, reporting symptomatic separately to asymptomatic would hugely help with understanding the data.