New Coronavirus Infections continues to increase, the virus is moving further into southern england and also spreading from the younger generations to older more vulnerable people. Our medical editor fergus walsh has more. The nightingale hospitals in manchester, sunderland and harrogate, set up for the first wave of coronavirus, are now being mobilised for the second. There are more patients in hospital with covid 19 than when the National Lockdown happened in march, and government scientists warn the numbers will rise. Government medical advisers. We have baked in additional hospital admissions, and sadly, we also have baked in additional deaths, that are now consequent upon infections that have already happened. There have been almost no hospital admissions among the under 18s, the flat line there, and there has been some increase among those aged 18 64. But now look at those aged 65 84, a sharp rise in hospital admissions, and even more striking among those aged 85 plus, reinforcin
But i suspect in sheltered areas where we see the best of the sunshine we might see 15 or 16 degrees, noticeably cooler along the east coast. As we move out of sunday afternoon, we will start to see that cloud and rain gathering from the west, so western fringes of scotland, Northern Ireland, seeing some wetter weather through the night. Cloudier weather ahead of it, but we could see more across the east and south east, temperatures here dipping down into low single figures. A bright start, not for long, clouding over quite quickly, the cloud and rain moves steadily out of Northern Ireland and scotland down through northern england, and here it may well linger for much of the day, and if that does so, temperatures really could struggle, perhapsjust a maximum of nine or 10 degrees. The rain not arriving into the london area until the end of the day, but a brighter story by the end of the afternoon to scotland and Northern Ireland. Now, that weather front could linger for a time on sunda
Found that england and wales recorded one of the highest numbers of excess deaths from all causes, at the height of the pandemic. Weekly data between mid february and the end of may showed there were almost 100 additional deaths per 100,000 people. Some hospitals are under pressure, intensive care and general ward beds filling up with covid 19 patients, and there is a need to find more space. The really tough decision for hospital managers is whether to postpone non urgent work to free up beds for coronavirus cases. An intensive Care Specialist in the north west of england said that was now looking more likely. When your back is against the wall and youve got patients coming in with severe covid infections and also you are getting staff, medical and nursing staff who are also suffering from not only covid infections but exhaustion, the planned activity will undoubtedly end up suffering. Gordon, who lives south of glasgow, was due to have a hip replacement in march. It was postponed unt
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