LONDON’S Covid hospitalisations have surged by 78 per cent in one week. And if current trends continue, they could reach No10’s reported lockdown threshold of 400 daily admissions per day. Boris Jo…
Professor Rupert Pearse, an intensive care doctor in London, said: “If you look at UK-wide figures you can’t see an uptick in hospital admissions just yet. But we know it’s coming and it will spread across the country.”than Delta, an expert said the NHS could still be under huge pressure.Professor Paul Elliott, director of the REACT-1 study, said “there are many many cases and sadly some of those people may get severe illness and end up in hospital".
Two jabs are not deemed enough to protect against the super strain - let alone one - and just a third of Londoners have gotten their booster shot. Almost 3,900 NHS staff at acute hospital trusts in London were absent for Covid reasons on December 19, more than double the number a week earlier .POCKETS OF HOPE
Daily case numbers rocketed to 27,650 on December 15, which was four-fold higher than the 9,364 reported just one week earlier.
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