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05-01-2022, 04:31 PM
Ian Sample and Nicola Davis
Tue 4 Jan 2022 16.33 GMT
Confirmed daily Covid cases in the UK have hit another record high, with 218,724 reported in the past 24 hours.
The latest figures – which reflect infections picked up by testing – bring the UK total for the past seven days to 1,269,878, up 51% on the week before. The true number of infections is estimated to be substantially higher as not all infections are captured by the testing programme.
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While hospitalisations have risen steeply with the Omicron wave, immunity conferred by vaccines and past infection, combined with the variant being intrinsically milder, has kept daily admissions and bed occupancy substantially lower than during the peak last January.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/j...rded-in-uk
Tue 4 Jan 2022 16.33 GMT
Confirmed daily Covid cases in the UK have hit another record high, with 218,724 reported in the past 24 hours.
The latest figures – which reflect infections picked up by testing – bring the UK total for the past seven days to 1,269,878, up 51% on the week before. The true number of infections is estimated to be substantially higher as not all infections are captured by the testing programme.
......
While hospitalisations have risen steeply with the Omicron wave, immunity conferred by vaccines and past infection, combined with the variant being intrinsically milder, has kept daily admissions and bed occupancy substantially lower than during the peak last January.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/j...rded-in-uk
