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Today's Zoe numbers not visibly slowing down and still rising more steeply than ever before. Predicted cases today top 300K for the first time in Zoe's history. On 305,134 up from 294,404 yesterday and 221,162 last Sunday. There are slight hints of the rise starting to tail off. Fingers...

Admissions (Wednesday - admissions are always 48 hours behind the rest of the hospital numbers below). Were in England 1823 - they have risen every day this past week but that is up just 23 on the day and from 1521 the previous week and 1184 the week before that. North West is rising more than...

UK deaths today up from 114 last week to 126 this week. England 87 to 95. As I said rising but not dramatically as yet. Cases 90,349 - up in the week from 72,898 last Friday. The rise then was from 44.740 the previous Friday so this is a decrease in the weekly rise. England only on 68,492 -...

There are a couple of England hospital number updates I have posted over the last two or three pages if you look back. The inpatient numbers are well up week to week (over 2000 in the past week to 11,346) and admissions have doubled from 800 or so to pushing 2000 a day in two or three weeks...

Today's Zoe graph showing even faster growth unfortunately. Not at this new highest ever peak yet. Ongoing cases on 2,929,423 - will top 3 million ongoing cases this weekend for the first time ever. Latest estimate for new cases today is 282,406 - another new record and up 13,702 on yesterday...

A brief update as I have to report that Zoe has today recorded that more people are a new Covid infection today than at any time in the pandemic. 268,704 new cases today in their data. Also the ongoing symptomatic cases set a new record today at 2,807,072. North West is the 7th out of 12 of...

Granada Reports covering the big rise in cases in the NW tonight. Asking should be be worried? And being told by a doctor potentially and we do need more boosters. So an unscheduled sit rep to calm nerves. They unfortunately gave cases from a week ago! Sadly as they were right that once again...

There is some good Covid news I can convey today. Northern Ireland has ZERO people with Covid on ventilators as of today. It has been on 1 for several days. This is the first time that zero has happened in any UK nation since mid Summer 2021 when there were a few days when this was true in NI...

Scotland have now sorted out their data issues that have meant I could not post my weekly update for this part of the UK yesterday as we had had no numbers since Friday. 38,770 cases in the 4 days is not a big increase on the days last week (it was 36,173 over the four days last week). 25...

Gov UK update excludes Scotland for the whole weekend due to major issues making all their data unavailable fpr the past 3 days it seems. For the other 3 nations :- 170,985 cases - last Monday (with Scotland included) was 126,604 - so it looks at least a 50% week to week rise when Scotland is...

To complete my promised weekly Monday round up of where we are - not good news on the hospital front in England. Though no surprise given the other numbers this weekend. The biggest weekend rise in weeks - from 9369 Friday to 10,576 today - up 668 today alone. This is up from 8923 last Monday...

Scotland has had a big rise in patients and ventilated over recent days. Up 445 in the week to 1805 today. That is the highest number here in 14 months and higher than the previous Omicron numbers ever were this winter. Also four times as many as were in hospital this day last year (461)...

Fair enough, I am not an expert in politics or pandemics.

Yes the UK numbers are definitely at a higher level with this strain of Omicron, And they are filtering more into older ages But - as yet - no sign of a major uptick in icu and death. This week will be very telling as patients were rising last week and as cases escalate are bound to do even...

We were too slow to judge the threat but given how quickly the first wave spread here we might only have succeeded in leaving more with no acquired immunity at all going into the winter 2020/21 wave which was easily the worst (hopefully will always remain the worst) and we were only just...

To be fair to countries that tried other strategies they could have just as easily succeeded. Nobody really knew two years ago if this was going to last for years with multiple new variants emerging rapidly because it literally got everywhere unable to really stop its spread in the way sparsely...

Yes my friend has recently been contacted and told to expect a call for a fourth jab in the next few weeks. She is on the vulnerable list. But I believe all over 75s are also to be offered one during April and May based on what they told her.

Those reports above are no surprise. Zoe app cases are rising faster than they ever have in the recent two or three months of the Omicron outbreak just as the government has decided to pull the plug on their funding for them - which the people running the app have called a really bad mistake. I...

The local BBC North West news today had a big report on Covid for the first time in a couple of weeks. Saying much of what I posted in here yesterday. And citing a lot of the numbers. We actually have quite a few more patients in hospital V the same date last year. When it was falling and...

Given the thread is active - just a brief update, UK Cases are up again today - 71,259 V 45,656 last week. England only 52,722 V 32,858 last week. Deaths down on 142 V 194. England only 95 V 144. England patients up just 78 to 9241 V 8210 last Thursday. East and South East the biggest risers...