COVID-19 case rates continued to increase this week compared to our previous report. A total 9.7% of 4,288 respiratory specimens reported through the Respiratory DataMart System were identified as COVID-19. This is compared to 7.1% of 4,303 from the previous report.
The overall COVID-19 hospital admission rate for week 34 was 3.37 per 100,000 population, an increase from 3.00 per 100,000 in the previous report.
Intensive care units (ICU) admission rates have increased to 0.11 per 100,000 compared to 0.08 per 100,000 in the previous report.
Hospital admission rates have increased in most age groups. UK Health Security Agency
See also:
- Research and analysis: COVID-19 therapeutic agents: technical briefings UK Health Security Agency
- Covid: New BA.2.86 variant found in Scotland BBC News
- Boots 'runs out of Covid tests' as 'concerned' health bosses plan to bring back community testing and pull forward booster rollout amid fears Pirola variant - which causes dry cough, a runny nose and fatigue - will 'overwhelm NHS' The Daily Mail
- Biggest surge in Covid deaths this year: Number dying due to virus jumps 57% in a week - with experts already calling call for return of masks The Daily Mail
- Covid-19 hospital admissions in England at three-month high The Independent
- Covid Eris symptoms: All we know about new variant driving surge in cases The Independent
- COVID-19 hospital admissions in England reach three-month high Sky News
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