The UK’s Covid outbreak continued to grow today as official data showed daily cases and hospital admissions jumped by more than 10 per cent in a week and infection rates increased in all of England’s local authorities.
Hospitalisations are already at their highest ever level in Scotland and rising quickly in England, which combined with the growing infections has led health chiefs and scientists to call for some people to isolate if they have cold-like symptoms.
Dr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security Agency, urged Britons to wear masks in enclosed spaces and socialise outdoors again — just weeks after the restrictions were downgraded from law.
Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist at King’s College London, added: ‘We need to be telling people to self-isolate with cold-like symptoms and get a test if they can.’
Government dashboard data shows another 98,204 Covid-positive tests were logged in the last 24 hours across the UK, up by 9.5 per cent in a week and more than a third higher than a fortnight ago.
Cases have been trending upwards across the UK for nearly a month, with experts blaming the more transmissible Omicron subvariant BA.2, which is now dominant, and ditching Covid curbs. Meanwhile, 165 Britons died within 28 days of a positive test, climbing by a fifth in a the last seven days.
And 1,979 infected people were admitted to hospitals across the UK on Sunday, the latest date figures are available for, 11 per cent higher than one week earlier.
Separate data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) today showed Covid cases jumped in all of England’s 149 local authorities in the week to March 20 for the third week in a row.
The figures show the worst-hit areas are concentrated in the South West, with around 1.5 per cent of people testing positive in North Somerset, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly and Torbay.
Scotland is currently treating 2,322 Covid patients, the highest figure ever recorded in the country, breaching the peak of 1,571 during the Omicron wave and 2,053 during the 2020 winter peak. But its daily admissions appear to have peaked at 223 last week, in a promising sign the outbreak is slowing down.
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