with all the nonsense on Ukraine going on I think we’ve ignored covid. Any news on the figures?
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Issuing figures at the weekends has been abandoned by BJ - today’s figures will incorporate figures for the weekend.
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Covid in Scotland: Omicron sub-variant driving increase case numbers
The World Health Organisation has said BA.2 is more transmissible than the original BA.1 Omicron strain, which emerged in Scotland in December.
However there is no evidence to suggest it is any more severe.
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14 March 2022
DATA ISSUE
No update to cases, deaths, tests, hospital admissions and vaccination data from Scotland
Due to a technical issue, Public Health Scotland (PHS) has been unable to provide updated data on cases, deaths, tests, hospital admissions and vaccinations. PHS are working to resolve this and hope to return to normal reporting tomorrow (15 March). UK totals therefore only include updates from England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
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Three-Day cumulative (excluding Scotland) = 171,000 (1) = 57,000 a day (average)
(1) Scotland’s cumulative figure was 25,000 last week (7/3).
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Scotland’s cumulative figure (incorporated) was 39,000.
Tomorrow’s figure will be more indicative.
Covid cases have continued to rise in the UK, with an estimated one in every 20 people infected, figures from the Office for National Statistic suggest. All age groups are affected, including the 75s and over, who are due a spring booster jab to top up protection. Hospital cases are also rising, but vaccines are still helping to stop many severe cases, say experts.
An easily spread sub-variant of Omicron, called BA.2, is now causing most cases. Recent easing of restrictions and waning immunity from the vaccines could be factors behind the rise too.
The ONS infection survey, which tests thousands of people randomly in households across the UK, estimates that 3.3 million people would have tested positive in the week ending 12 March - up from 2.6 million the previous week.
Prof James Naismith, Director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute, and Professor of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, said the high infection rates around the UK currently, with few Covid restrictions, meant that almost anyone could catch the virus.
He said: “My main concern is for the vulnerable for whom this disease is serious. Every effort must be made to triple vaccinate as many people as possible, quadruple vaccinate the most vulnerable.”
Apparently, the UK is “opening up”:
The number requiring ICU treatment, however, remains relatively low as fewer patients become seriously ill.
The latest Covid surge is thought to be driven by a more transmissible sub-variant of Omicron.
Hi
Here in Shropshire we have the Military back in to help out.
What have they been tasked with?
Data from the Office for National Statistics.
Swab tests suggest around one in every 16 people is infected as the contagious Omicron variant BA.2 continues to spread.
That’s just under 4.3 million people, up from 3.3 million the week before.> The figures for the week ending 19 March, are thought to give the most accurate reflection of what’s happening with the virus in the community.
Rates were up in England and Wales, and Scotland reached a new high.
Infections have started decreasing in Northern Ireland however.
The rates across the nations were:
- England: 6.4%, up from 4.9% last week - approximately one in 16 people
- Wales: 6.4%, up from 4.1% last week - approximately one in 16 people
- Northern Ireland: 5.9%, down from 7.1% last week - approximately one in 17 people
- Scotland: 9%, up from 7.15% last week - approximately one in 11 people
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Hi
Apologies for the delay in replying.
They are doing Triage and support on waiting Ambulances and
helping out in A&E and Resus.
I am not entirely sure what they are doing exactly.
When you are in Resus things get a blurred due to the medication.
They where doing medical stuff however, at least the ones I saw.