A rise in cases means the UK should be "cautious"

People in the UK should be "very cautious" going into autumn and winter as the number of COVID-19 cases rise, housing secretary, Robert Jenrick says.

This comes after two scientific advisers gave striking warnings after 2,948 new UK cases were recorded yesterday.

Professor Jonathan Van Tam, the deputy chief medical officer for England, said that increase of cases was a "great concern".

He suggested that people had "relaxed too much" and addressed concerns of the virus being spread and caught by young people on Monday.

He added: "The fact that 17 to 21-year-olds are not becoming ill means they are lucky, but they also forget because the disease is not severe for them that they are potent spreaders."

In an ITV interview, Professor Edmunds from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said that the UK's R number had gone "above one" which meant that the country was "risky period".

He said: "We can see the epidemic is taking off again. So I don't think we've hit that sweet spot where we've been able to control the epidemic and allow the economy to return to some sort of normality,"