LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom recorded 1,813 new daily confirmed cases of COVID-19, versus 1,940 on Friday, health officials said on Saturday.

Daily case numbers were about 1,000 a day for most of August, but have started to increase in recent days. Britain’s testing capacity has also increased since the peak of the first wave earlier this year.

Friday’s figure was the highest since May 30.

(Reporting by James Davey; Editing by Frances Kerry)

Copyright 2020 Thomson Reuters.