“Of real concern is that this increase is also being seen in our older age groups.
“Our rate in the over 60 years population is now putting our health and social care services under very severe pressure - the rates in this age group have gone up by over 60 per cent and we think this will continue at least for the next two weeks.
“I would encourage everyone to stay at home as much as possible and help those who are most vulnerable, by offering to collect their shopping and prescriptions etc.”
The news of over parts of the country was confirmed on the same day that the Oxford Vaccine will be available to be used in the near future.