COVID-19 alert level reduced to 2

COVID-19 alert level reduced to 2 Based on UKHSA advice, the UK Chief Medical Officers and NHS England National Medical Director have recommended to ministers the COVID alert level moves from level 3 to level 2.

Hospitals and the wider health systems remain extremely busy overall but the summer BA.4 and BA.5 wave is subsiding and direct COVID severe illness is now a much smaller proportion of this. Severe COVID cases, direct COVID healthcare pressures, direct COVID deaths and ONS community positivity estimates have decreased. Department of Health and Social Care

See also:

• Guidance: UK COVID-19 alert level methodology: an overview UK Health Security Agency