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Younger people say to me they never really had their message, their voices, heard before. this, they say, could be a turning point. i after today, they are all going to gather together and will continue being disallowed as they go north of the border to glasgow for cop26. being this loud.— the border to glasgow for cop26. bein: this loud. ., ~ i. , . being this loud. thank you very much indeed. last week saw the highest levels of coronavirus infections ever reported across uk — according to the office for national statistics. the infection survey found that nearly 1.3 million people in the...

With about one in 45 people thought to have had it in the week to third september, up from one in 75 the previous week. let's try to untangle all of that. joining me now is our head of statistics, robert cuffe. 0ne one in 45 in scotland, talk us through that.— one in 45 in scotland, talk us throu~h that. .,. . , . , through that. those are christmas numbers. through that. those are christmas numbers- we _ through that. those are christmas numbers. we were _ through that. those are christmas numbers. we were seeing - through that. those are christmas numbers. we were seeing about l through th...

BBC News By Robert Cuffe image copyrightGetty Images A run of seven consecutive days with falling case numbers is raising hopes about the beginning of the end of the pandemic. Even notoriously cautious experts such as Prof Neil Ferguson are saying that by the autumn "the bulk of the pandemic" could be behind us. But with Public Health England warning that "we are still in the third wave", how can you tell the blips from the real trends? And what stats should you look at to know whether we might be getting close to the end? 1. The number of new hospital admissions

Post—vaccination in rural areas. professor paul elliot is director of the react study. we did our survey between the 20th may and 17th ofjune, may and 7th ofjune, and over 100,000 people took part. what we found during that period there has been exponential growth in the virus from the quite low levels we got to in our last survey, which was april—may. rapid growth with the r number above one. but in the older people, we saw that this weakening of the association between infection rate and hospitalisations and death has maintained, and it is actually in the younger people as you said where...

Higher than their previously dominant alpha variants. two doses of the vaccine are just as effective as a hospital admissions that the delta variant compared to the alpha variants. uk data backs this up. we know the delta variant is around 60% more transmissible than the alpha variant — or kent variant as it's also known. hospital admission rates suggest people infected by delta are twice as likely to be hospitalised than with alpha. now should emphasise, overall numbers are low compared with earlier this year. but this high transmissibility helps explain what's happening in the uk. these ar...