#Covid19 cases up 20% across the UK in the past week
◾️ England up 17%
◾️ N.Ireland up 53%
◾️ Scotland up 32%
◾️ Wales up 36%
The growth in cases across all four nations is slowing down.
As I predicted last week, deaths starting to trend up with so many Omicron cases.
With more admitted with Covid but not for it deaths data will overcount the true impact of Covid on mortality from now on.
Deaths 82% lower than last year & signs starting to rise.
The number of #Covid19 patients in critical care beds in England is similar to the level just before Xmas
◾️ 22.5% of beds have a Covid-19 patient
◾️ 59.1% have non-Covid patients
◾️ 18.4% unoccupied
➡️ No change in patients with #Covid19 in ventilated beds in #England. Total is 67% lower than last year
➡️ Overall 54% increase in total patients with Covid but seeing more in with it, rather than for it (up to 45%)
➡️Total patients 43% lower than last year
In Wales a 12% increase in past week in #Covid19 patients in ventilated beds & 73% lower than last year
➡️ Patients in general beds up 83% but 58% lower than last year
Between 37% and 45% of patients in English hospitals with Covid-19 are not in hospital because of the virus but have it
➡️ This has increased from around 25% to 30% in mid December
On 02 Jan 2022, around 2.9% of NHS staff in England were off work through #Covid19 related reasons.
In Wales the staff sickness rate due to Covid19 doubled over the Xmas period from 0.9% to 2.1%. It is lower than at the start of the pandemic.
Rightwards arrow The % of staff self isolating also increased over the two weeks from 0.9% to 1.5%.
◾️#Covid19 was involved in 6.5% of deaths across Eng/Wales for the most recent week
◾️ 93.5 % of deaths were non Covid19
London which saw the Omicron wave hit first have seen the week on week change in cases showing a decline for several days
If you throw in all the other English regions you can see while cases are growing (because they are above the grey area) the rate of growth is coming down - good news.
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