By COVID measures needed over Easter, NHS warns
According to reports, COVID-19 rates are at their highest level in England.
This is reportedly the highest ever level.
The two variants of Omicron, BA.1 and BA.2 caused significant surges in the pandemic.
The testing done between 8th and 31st March suggests 6.37% of people in England had COVID-19- making it the highest level recorded.
In January, the rate was recorded as 4.41%.
It has been found that whilst younger groups’ cases are decreasing, it has increased in oldest groups, who are more likely to suffer from severe illness.
The study has also suggested hospital admissions have gone up, due to the increasing “Prevalence in older adults”.
Professor Christl Donnelly, from Imperial College London, said: ” It’s still the case that if you see more infections, you would expect, even if it’s a very small proportion of those, to see more of the severe outcomes.
” So we don’t yet know when we’ll see a peak in the oldest age group and because those people are at higher risk of severe outcomes that is a particular worry”.
The Government has continued with its plan regarding the dropping of restrictions including testing, despite the ‘severe’ rise in cases.
Dr. Layla McCay, director of policy at the NHS Confederation said: ” Nearly 20,000 people are mow in hospital with COVID in England, and the NHS and its exhausted staff are once again struggling to cope with increasing admissions and bed occupancy. “.
” NHS leaders and their teams are increasing their COVID services and reopening coronavirus wards, but the government must take heed, combined with chronic staff shortages, and a waiting list backlog that now tops 6.1 million, we need a real conversation about the current situation in the health service”.
