BBCNEWS BBC News January 19, 2022 17:13:00
The 29th december at almost 225,000 cases. this is also reflected in our hospitalisation data. here you can see that we have reached case numbers of less than 20,000 cases in hospital in the uk, again, less than half the peak we saw last december and january, 2020 and 2021. it is also important to note there are only 703 patients in mechanical ventilator beds, and that's a level as low as lastjuly when we also opened up in this country. it is also much, much lower than we saw in the wave last january. this is reflecting our high levels of vaccination in the population and also the reduced seve...