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Around one in 70 people in private households in England had Covid-19 in the week to September 3, unchanged from the previous two weeks, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics.
One in 70 is the equivalent of about 754,600 people, PA news reports.
This is the graph showing cases of coronavirus in Wales, which was shown during the press conference this lunchtime.
Here’s the graph that was shown in today’s press conference pic.twitter.com/iGcVLgBykC
