Don't know if I'm right but serious/critical cases stand at 161 I'm sure it was over 1000 a couple of weeks back I know cases are rising but it seems to me that the amount of people getting seriously ill and dying is dropping rapidly really dont think there was any need to extend the so called freedom day.
What number are you referring to here and where?
I have certainly not seen such a big fall in hospital data in a couple of weeks. It is slowly but surely going the other way.
People in England on ventilators rose by 24 to 170 over the past weekend alone. It was 110 two weeks ago.
That is a more than 50% increase in 2 weeks.
This is a long way from the 3736 in January at the peak but it is unquestionably rising and that rise escalated last week from the week before.
Same with patient numbers.
With the North West being the main reason for both rises.
The region where the variant first appeared and has had lomg enough to seed these hospital rises.
Numbers we are yet to see in other regions but are all but certain to follow in the coming month.
I post the numbers from hospital every day in here around early evening.
We will almost certainly get nowhere near those January numbers but with 6 other England regions yet to show any uptick like the NW has post Delta colonising them it remains unclear how far up we could go in coning weeks as this spreads. Which it undeniably is doing.