BBCNEWS BBC News October 22, 2021 14:16:00
Hospital admissions are still much lower than injanuary. the thing that scientific advisers and ministers are looking at most is not so much cases as hospital admissions, so they are watching that very, very carefully, and at the moment you have seen a slight increase in hospital admissions over the last couple of weeks or so but you have not seen anything like the huge increase that we saw back injanuary when we were seeing cases about this sort of level. so at the moment across the uk you are looking about 8000 people in hospital for example with covid. back injanuary it was about 40,000. no...