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Number of patients hospitalised with Covid hits seven-month high

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Hospitals are looking after their highest level of Covid-19 patients for more than seven months.
There will four times the current level of coronavirus hospital patients in January (Pictures: Getty/Rex)

Hospitals are looking after their highest level of Covid-19 patients for more than seven months.

There were 8,693 people in hospitals with coronavirus on Monday, the most since March 9.

Figures show this was an increase of 11% on the previous week.

Daily cases topped 50,000 for the first time since lockdown ended in one day last week.

It piled the pressure on the government to introduce stricter curbs on freedoms.

Yet the number of patients in hospital are well below those seen at the peak of last winter’s second wave.

At the high point of the pandemic, on January 18, hospitals had four times the current level of Covid patients (39,254 people).

People queue outside the Outpatients Department at the Basildon and Thurrock hospital in south west Essex, eastern England, on January 1, 2021. - Britain said December 31 that it had vaccinated almost 950,000 people, as a surge in coronavirus cases prompted the reopening of field hospitals and warnings not to party on New Year's Eve. Health Services are under increasing pressure after record levels of daily lab-confirmed cases of Covid-19 has led to more patients being treated in hospital in England than during the initial peak of the outbreak in April with regions like Essex declaring a
People queue outside the outpatients department at Basildon and Thurrock Hospital (Picture: AFP)

Patient numbers have been on a slow upwards trend since the third wave of the virus began at the end of May.

The figure had dipped as low as 872 on May 27.

Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, who helped create the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, warned the NHS was ‘incredibly fragile’.

But he added: ‘That fragility is only contributed a small amount by Covid and so vaccinating is not going to suddenly make the NHS not be on its knees, where it is at the moment.’

Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group Andrew Pollard attends a virtual news conference on the ongoing situation with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Downing Street, London, Britain November 23, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/Pool
The Oxford Vaccine Group director Andrew Pollard speaking at a Covid news conference (Picture: Reuters)
A NHS 'test and trace' worker guides a woman through the process of self-administering a Covid-19 test at a drive through/walk up testing facility in Moston, geater Manchester on February 19, 2021, as a handful of cases of a Covid-19 'variant of concern' has surfaced in the area. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)
A woman self-administers a test (Picture: AFP/Getty)

He said hospital admissions now were ‘quite a different story from last year’, with the vast majority of patients having shorter hospital stays and much milder disease.

Many of these people also have underlying health conditions ‘which are destabilised by having a relatively mild Covid infection’, he said.

Professor Andrew Pollard, Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, and a professor of paediatric infection and immunity receives the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Sam Foster at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford as the NHS ramps up its vaccination programme with 530,000 doses of the newly approved jab available for rollout across the UK. PA Photo. Picture date: Monday January 4, 2021. Six hospital trusts will be the first to administer the vaccine before the bulk of supplies are sent to hundreds of GP-led services. See PA story HEALTH Coronavirus Vaccine. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire
Professor Pollard gets the AstraZeneca vaccine from nurse Sam Foster (Picture: PA)

The government has said high uptake of booster jabs is needed to avoid further restrictions this winter.

Around 22 million Brits will be ready to receive their third jab by the end of January.

But modelling by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has suggested infections will peak soon before nosediving over winter, even without ‘Plan B’ restrictions.

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