🗣 'Planning a holiday is one thing, being admitted to hospital and placed on a ventilator is quite another.'
Leeds is second with 148, up from 50. The Mid Yorkshire Trust is next on the list, with 146 people in hospital, up from 40 people a month ago. Doncaster and Bassetlaw is close behind, going from 26 to 109.What’s even more worrying is that amid this latest wave of infections, across England and Wales, deaths due to Covid have begun to rise again too.
The latest mortality figures are also only half those reported at the height of the summer wave this year, when 810 deaths from Covid were registered in the week to July 29.The bottom line? One in 50 of us are now estimated to be suffering from Covid, according to the ONS, so that’s around 1.1m people. And this, as we approach a winter when millions of households are having to make the decision over heating or eating, is not a comforting piece of information.
To be fair, there’s been no important televised announcement from any other public health official either, but in January last year, when we also had one in 50 people testing positive, Dr Yvonne Doyle, the medical director for Public Health England, issued a dire warning: “The rapid rise in cases is highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter.
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