Department of Health bosses posted 223 fatalities today, up 23.2 per cent on last Tuesday s figure of 181. It was the highest victim count since March 9, when 231 people died with the virus.
Amanda Pritchard told MPs expanding critical care, introducing new treatments and rolling out the vaccine prevented hospitals from becoming overrun over the last year-and-a-half.
Just 110 mass vaccine hubs are up and running in England now compared to 160 at the peak of the initial rollout in April. A Government source said this was behind the slow booster drive.
ROSS CLARK: The Government s opponents lost no time in trying to exploit the dramatic new report into the Covid-19 pandemic in Britain to reinforce their preferred narrative.
Hospitalised Covid patients are more likely to die if they have low levels of antibodies and higher viral loads, researchers at Spain s National Centre for Microbiology found.