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,
yorkshire and the humber and west midlands, and other regions weren t far behind. and 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 recently, particularly those sort of from nursery through to primary, but we are now seeing infections among older age groups as well, so they re young adults from the mid 20s to the mid 30s, but spreading right the way up to increases now in the over 70s, although they do remain the lowest group to be infected. there is some more encouraging news on boosters. new uk data suggests a booster shot is 88% effective at preventing people ending up in hospital due to 0micron and, after a huge push, all uk nations say they ve hit the target of offering all adults a