katharine da costa reports. most nhs staff will be glad to see the back of 2021. nearly two years into this pandemic, many are exhausted. a spike in covid cases is driving a rise in staff sickness. in england, london is worst affected, with about 4% of staff in acute trusts absent for covid related reasons in the week before christmas up nearly 60% on the week before. many feel it is impacting on patient care. the staff that are at work will be caring for more patients, trying to do more to cover for their missing colleagues, working extra hours, starting early, finishing late. the pressure will be immense. in the latest infection survey from the 0ns, infections increased across the uk to their highest level on record in the week to christmas eve. in england, one in 25 had the virus. in scotland, wales, and northern ireland it was one in a0. infections doubled
patients, trying to do more to cover for their missing colleagues, working extra hours, starting early, finishing late. the pressure will be immense. in the latest infection survey from the 0ns, infections increased across the uk to their highest level on record in the week to christmas eve. in england, one in 25 had the virus. in scotland, wales, and northern ireland, it was one in a0. infections doubled in a week in london. one in 15 tested positive. but there were big rises too in the north west, yorkshire and the humber and west midlands. other regions weren t far behind. it is now the dominant variant. statisticians say infections are twice the level they were this time last winter in england because they re being fuelled by the more infectious 0micron variant. so across all age groups, we are seeing increases, but particularly driven by those young age groups, we ve seen increases among school age children fairly
affected with about 4% of staff in acute trusts absent for covid related reasons in the week before christmas, up nearly 60% on the week before. many feel it s impacting on patient care. the staff that are at work will be caring for more patients, trying to do more to cover for their missing colleagues, working extra hours, starting early, finishing late. the pressure will be immense. in the latest infection survey from the 0ns, infections increased across the uk to their highest level on record in the week to christmas eve. in england, one in 25 had the virus. in scotland, wales, and northern ireland, it was one in a0. infections doubled in a week in london. one in 15 tested positive. but there were big rises too in the north west, yorkshire and the humber and west midlands. other regions weren t far behind. it is now the dominant variant. statisticians say infections are twice the level they were this time last winter in england because they re
before. many feel it s impacting on patient care. the staff that are at work will be caring for more patients, trying to do more to cover for their missing colleagues, working extra hours, starting early, finishing late. the pressure will be immense. in the latest infection survey from the ons, infections increased across the uk to their highest level on record in the week to christmas eve. in england, one in 25 had the virus. in scotland, wales and northern ireland, it was one in 40. infections doubled in a week in london. one in 15 tested positive. but there were big rises too in the north west, yorkshire and the humber and west midlands. other regions weren t far behind. statisticians say infections are twice the level they were this time last winter in england because they re being fuelled by the more infectious omicron variant. across all age groups, we are seeing increases,
infection survey, probably the most helpful number, of how big it is and how quick it is growing, but the overall picture is a pretty clear one, that the epidemic is growing at least in terms of cases. one thing to add, we quoted the numbers for people going into hospital in the uk, but we have more recent data for england and we are starting to see the effects, 2400 people going into hospital in england on the 29th of december, three times higher than it was two weeks ago, so we are starting to see those big rises in infections feeding through into the number of people going into hospital, and we don t know where it will land and where the peak will be but we know the direction of travel. borisjohnson but we know the direction of travel. boris johnson says but we know the direction of travel. borisjohnson says he has met his target of every adult in england are being offered a covid jab by today, but what is the uptake? tt is being offered a covid jab by today, but what is the uptake?