here“The rise in the number of cases that we have seen today is concerning,” Mr Hancock said.“The cases are predominantly among younger people but we have seen in other countries across the world and in Europe this sort of rise in the cases among younger people lead to a rise across the population as a whole, so it so important that people don’t allow this illness to infect their grandparents and to lead to the sort of problems that we saw earlier in the year.”As of 9am on Sunday (September 6) there were 2,988 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus - a sharp spike from yesterday's figure of 1,813.Overall, 347,152 cases have been confirmed.A further three people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the.