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 The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) added around 840,000 cases to
the cumulative total, taking it to 17.3 million coronavirus
infections reported.
Britain's daily COVID statistics previously would only count people
who had tested positive for the first time to avoid double-counting
people who had received multiple positive test results for the same
infection.
However, with variants such as Omicron leading to an increase in
reinfections, the UKHSA said it would change its method to treat
positive tests as separate infections if there was at least 90 days
between test results. The change took effect on Monday.
"Reinfection remained at very low levels until the start of the
Omicron wave. It is right that our daily reporting processes reflect
how the virus has changed," said Steven Riley, UKHSA’s Director
General of Data and Analytics.
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 "We continue to see downward trends in case
numbers and incidence of illness as we work to
reduce the impact of the pandemic on our
day-to-day lives"
Monday's daily cases - the first to include
reinfections - saw a further 92,368 cases
reported, with 51 deaths within 28 days of a
positive test result.
Britain has reported 155,754 deaths from
COVID-19, the seventh highest tally globally.
(Reporting by Alistair Smout; editing by Michael
Holden)
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