Category: UK
Jenny Harris: Quite likely BA.5 hospitalizations will exceed those of BA.2
Dr Jenny Harris, of the UKHSA, has said in an interview today that it is quite likely that BA.5 hospitalizations will “peak over” those of the Omicron BA.2 wave, meaning that Britain could see the highest hospitalization figures for eighteen months. More...
WHO: “Several children already infected” with Monkeypox
Just two days after deciding that the international Monkeypox outbreak wasn’t sufficiently serious enough to warrant designating it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the WHO are already backtracking. More...
UK: Over 3 million symptomatic cases of Covid-19
The UK ZOE Covid app is reporting that, for the second time in just over three months, more than three million people in the UK have symptomatic Covid. More...
UK: More than 1,000 cases of Monkeypox in Britain
Up to 26 June 2022 there were 1,076 laboratory confirmed cases in the UK. More...
Scotland: One person in twenty infected with Covid-19
The latest report from the Office of National Statistics shows a big increase in COVID-19 cases across the four nations of the UK, and particularly in Scotland. More...
Europe: 2022 summer covid wave already larger than European winter wave of 2020
Despite an almost complete lack of Covid testing across Europe, case numbers in the current summer wave are already higher than last year’s summer wave of 2021, AND the winter wave of 2020. More...
UK ONS: Large increase in reinfections since Omicron
ONS: “There has been a large increase in the rates for all re-infections and re-infections with a high viral load since the Omicron variants became most common.” More...
England: Over 1,000 Covid-19 hospitalizations a day
England is starting to see the results of its barmy “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy towards Covid-19 infections, as more than 1,000 people a day are now turning up at hospitals across the country with Covid related illnesses. More...
Monkeypox: 793 cases in the UK, more than 800 in Spain
Up to 20 June 2022 there were 793 laboratory confirmed cases in the UK. More...
UK: Vaccine derived polio outbreak in London *1 update*
The Guardian newspaper is reporting the discovery of vaccine derived Polio in wastewater from London today:
“UK Public health officials have declared a national incident after routine surveillance of wastewater in north and east London found evidence of community transmission of poliovirus for the first time. More...