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Of thousands of households, picking up those who don t have symptoms. its latest survey points to a faster spread around the uk. well, we are seeing a really quick increase in prevalence right across the country and across all ages, significantly for the very first time, all of the numbers are at the moment very, very small in the over 70s. this chart shows how rapidly infections in the uk were rising as measured by the 0ns at the end of last week and into the weekend. to more than 1.7 million people with the virus. there were differences around the uk, though, and england, it was one in 35 people, in northern ireland one in a0 in wales, one in a5. while in scotland, it was one in 65 people with the virus. 0micron cases are rising rapidly, but it s less likely than delta to put people in hospital according to new research and officials say that s reassuring. there is a glimmer of christmas ....
Or delta variants. the data comes from the office for national statistics, which tests people from tens of thousands of households, picking up those who don t have symptoms. its latest survey points to a faster spread around the uk. well, we are seeing a really quick increase in prevalence right across the country and across all ages, significantly for the very first time, all of the numbers are at the moment very, very small in the over 70s. this chart shows how rapidly infections in the uk were rising as measured by the 0ns at the end of last week and into the weekend to more than 1.7 million people with the virus. there were differences around the uk, though, in england, it was one in 35 people, in northern ireland one in a0 in wales, one in a5. while in scotland, it was one in 65 people with the virus. 0micron cases are rising rapidly, but it s less likely than delta ....
London is the epicentre of the surge, and new figures suggest that one in 20 people in the city now have the virus, either the omicron or delta variants. the data comes from the office for national statistics, which tests people from tens of thousands of households, picking up those who don t have symptoms. its latest survey points to a faster spread around the uk. well, we are seeing a really quick increase in prevalence right across the country and across all ages, significantly for the very first time, all of the numbers are at the moment very, very small in the over 70s. this chart shows how rapidly infections in the uk were rising as measured by the 0ns at the end of last week and into the weekend. to more than 1.7 million people with the virus. there were differences around the uk, though, and england, ....
At the moment for the data, which makes it really hard to read the overall picture. first of all, as we ve been hearing, cases arising there was a surge picked up by the 0ns at the end of last week and into the weekend, described as sobering by the head of the 0ns. really quite a sharp increase there. but then, as we ve been hearing through this week, various pieces of research pointed to the fact that it s less severe in terms of the number of people who end up in hospital than delta. now it seems that in government, the picture is very much leave it till early next week no decisions yet about meetings or whether there needs to be any further announcements about restrictions. nothing has been ruled out, they need the data that is actually why the office for national statistics is updating its very authoritative survey. but what is causing a concern is the continued rise of hospital numbers with covid in the london, and also the prospect of more absences across the nhs, socia ....
That s gone up by about half in a week. so it s that kind of rate of growth and spread of omicron continues to go up, that is eventually going to put pressure on hospitals, schools and businesses as people have to isolate. it s also going to mean that the peak comes very quickly, isn t it? i mean, this is going to burn very fast indeed. yeah, i think a bit of a calculation, i have to admit, but the 0ns to give us a nice few days, we proceed closer to 200,000 every day, there are only so many dubliners there are only so many doublings you can go through before you are infecting the entire population of the uk every couple of hours, so eventually it does burn itself out, and that s why the models that look at where the peak might come in terms of a figure we really care about, people going into hospital people going into hospital who are sick, that s kind of peaking injanuary february, probably different where it s time for it to do so. joining me now isjohn burn murdoch, data journalis ....