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3.3 million people in the uk would have tested positive for covid in the week to last saturday. that s one in every 20 people. there are a record number of cases in scotland and the rate of infection among the over 70s in england is now the highest since the office for national statistics began collecting data. dominic hughes has that story. at london s king s college hospital, the wards are getting busier. already facing a huge backlog of cases due to the pandemic, hospital admissions are on the rise once more following an increase in the number of people falling ill with covid. we have had a tricky week this week, both in terms of our emergency departments, so big numbers of attends to our emergency department, but also we re starting to see an increase in patients who need to be admitted and treated for coronavirus. the latest data from the 0ns shows covid infections are rising across most parts of the uk, jumping by more than a quarter over half a million cases ....
It was prudent to keep the measure in place, given the current spike in covid cases in scotland. james shaw explains why. if you just view one set of figures, the number of people in hospital at the moment is 1,996 with coronavirus, and that is the highest figure that there has been in scotland since early last year. and it s certainly also true that infection rates are unusually high. there was a suggestion last month from the 0ns, or last week from the 0ns, that the infection rate was higher in scotland than in any other part of the united kingdom. and it is really in response to that that the scottish government has looked at these figures and decided that they want to exercise that principle of caution, which undoubtedly is going to be, as nicola sturgeon said, disappointing to some people and some businesses who had expected, i suppose, an historic change, in a sense, that from next monday, ....
At the graph you can see what s been happening through the course of the pandemic, really. idraw happening through the course of the pandemic, really. i draw your attention first to the highest point on the right hand side, where it s over 4 million infections, that s over 4 million infections, that s overwinter, then we saw it coming down, it was tied in with easing restrictions, what we seem quite recently as this uptick, so despite it coming down to 2.5 million we are now at about 3.3 million people testing positive. if that s the big tide of covid infections, there are lots of little currents on that data. if you look at england, wales, scotland, it is up in those countries but may be plateauing and starting to fall in northern ireland, but there are still very high levels of infections, one in 14 people testing positive there. the other thing in the data, the over 70s now have the highest level of covid infection reported by the 0ns throughout the pandemic, since about 2020 in may ....
It is going to a population quickly might mean that we come out the other side fingers crossed.- other side fingers crossed. you ve not it, other side fingers crossed. you ve got it. are other side fingers crossed. you ve got it. are you other side fingers crossed. you ve got it, are you little other side fingers crossed. you ve got it, are you little bit got it, are you little bit suspicious that people aren t testing quite so rigorously as they perhaps once where? particularly as they are not required to because they re not travelling a lot dust travelling abroad, but there travelling abroad, but there travelling in the uk, taking more risks than they would have in the days before the vaccine. sienna, we can t hear you, are you muted? i did the classic can t hear you, are you muted? i did the classic open can t hear you, are you muted? i did the classic open mic can t hear you, are you muted? i did the classic open mic thing of being muted! the classic open mic thing o ....
Show, don t they, that the number of peopie with show, don t they, that the number of people with covid following the 0ns figures people with covid following the 0ns figures last week are very, very high? figures last week are very, very high? admissions up to, as it said, the 0micron high? admissions up to, as it said, the omicron peak level, so in one level. the omicron peak level, so in one level. we the omicron peak level, so in one level, we have got this national mood that the thing is over, or more or less mood that the thing is over, or more or less over. mood that the thing is over, or more or less over, at the same time the actual or less over, at the same time the actual reality is that there is a being actual reality is that there is a being infected and hospitals, chris whitty being infected and hospitals, chris whitty saying, are under pressure because whitty saying, are under pressure because of whitty saying, are under pressure because of it, so t ....