Weekly update:
England hospital deaths totalled 506 in the last full week: V 579 week before and 550 the week before that.
Still falling as you can see.
Admissions with Covid also continued falling - last 7 days daily totals to 31 October
863 - 857 - 773 - 558 - 518 - 640 - 630
Daily total patients to yesterday
9131 - 8860 - 8663 - 8324 - 8235 - 8019 - 7591 - 7296
This is double the fall in the previous week.
However, North West had the lowest fall for the second week running - from 1111 to 1030 - though ventilators fell in the NW from 28 to 16 in the week. Total ventilators in England hospitals went from
222 to 175 yesterday.
All the other measures show falls too with hospital patients in the other nations dropping slowly.
Zoe numbers are also steadily falling.
Predicted new cases 166,791 today V 179,299 last week
And ongoing estimated cases 2,578,788 V 2,815,969 last week