BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 17:09:00
Half a million in a week. 0ur health editor hugh pym gave more detail on dame jenny's comments. she is acknowledging that there is another wave at a moment and that it is not finished and she is saying if you look at the numbers, she didn't give a timeframe on this, but it could well be more in hospital with covid than there were back in march. that was the previous peak, around 16,500, currently around 9000 in hospital now, so it is warning it could be higher because it is fuelled by these new variants of the variant 0micron, which spread more rapidly. it has to be said, if you look at hospit...