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Newsday

let's look back at the trend for community infections charted by the weekly office for national statistics survey. this suggests that 2.3 million people in the uk had the virus in the week to 24june, compared with nearly five million at the end of march, when there was a surge driven by a variant of 0micron ba.2. but the level�*s rising fast thanks to new variants — and today, we learned what health officials think might happen in the weeks ahead. it doesn't look as though that wave has finished yet, so we would anticipate that hospital cases will rise. and it's possible, quite likely, that they will actually peak over the previous ba.2 wave. so, here are those covid hospital numbers. the most up—to—date figures are for england. there are now over 9,300 patients in hospitals with covid, though some are there because of another health issue. we're now being warned this could go up above the 16,600

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BBC News

being admitted to hospital with covid is expected to rise again. the latest uk figures show that infectionsjumped by more than 0.5 million in a week. our health editor hugh pym is here with the latest. huw, today we've had a warning from a senior official that we are in a new covid wave and the numbers will continue rising from here. let's look back at the trend for community infections charted by the weekly office for national statistics survey. this suggests that 2.3 million people had the virus in the week tojune 24th, compared with nearly five million at the end of march, when there was a surge driven by a variant of omicron ba.2. but the level is rising fast thanks to new variants, and today, we learned what health officials think might happen in the weeks ahead. it doesn't look as though that wave has finished yet so we would anticipate that hospital cases will rise and it's possible, quite likely, that they will actually peak over the previous ba.2 wave.

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Newsday

this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines... in denmark, at least three people are killed in a shooting at a shopping centre in the capital copenhagen. police say a 22—year—old danish man has been charged with manslaughter and will appear in court on monday. turning to the uk now — there's been a warning that the number of people being admitted to hospital with covid is expected to rise. that's according to the chief executive of the uk health security agency. the latest uk figures show that infectionsjumped by more than half a million in a week. 0ur health editor hugh pym gave us more detail on this. let's look back at the trend for community infections charted by the weekly office for national statistics survey. this suggests that 2.3 million people in the uk had the virus

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BBC News

national statistics survey was roughly 2.3 million people across the whole of the uk, up from 1.7 million the week before, so a fairly significant increase, and in scotland one in 18 people would have had the virus. this data, because people might think, we are not really testing for covid in the same way we were before, but this is coming from the weekly office for national statistics survey, sampling tens of thousands of people at random at rather than asking people with symptoms to come forward and it is seen as the most accurate picture of what is going on. as for the reasons why, we have seen a switch to a new offshoot of the omicron variant which is increasing in transmission across the uk. it is thought to be transmitting more easily than earlier offshoots and it also affects people who have had omicron in the past but then can pick up this offshoot more easily.

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BBC News-20211224-13:11:00

hugh pym joins me now. we have minutes from the latest meeting of government experts and data about how fast covid is spreading so what are we learning? yes, this is the office for national statistics survey, referred to in dominic's piece, which goes around the same households repeatedly in the same households repeatedly in the tens of thousands of households, to do spot checks. it picks up people who have not come forward with symptoms to get tested. it picks up those who are asymptomatic as well. it is seen as a very authoritative guide to what's going on, more so than the daily tests that we get and we have seen over the last few days. the latest study goes right up until sunday and compares with the study that went two or three days previously and it shows just in those three days how much the virus had spread to more people, adding 368,000 just in that time in terms of the week up until

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