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Hopes for a speedier lifting of lockdown were given a boost today as private government data showed hospitalisation rates were nosediving faster than expected. Modelling by Sage presented to Downing Street and leaked to The Times predicts hospital admissions and deaths will more than halve over the next month. Patients battling coronavirus in hospital currently … Read more
The number of people being hospitalised with Covid-19 in England spiked by almost a third in a week, according to official data. A Public Health England surveillance report revealed the weekly admission rate for the disease was 10.01 per 100,000 in the week up to October 25 — up from 7.74 the week prior, a rise of 30 … Read more
Coronavirus hospital admissions in Europe are still at only a fraction of the level they were in March and April despite warnings from officials that a second wave is rolling across the continent. Countries such as France, Spain and Belgium, which are now seeing hospital patient numbers rise again, are recording far fewer admissions than … Read more
The UK updated its travel ‘green list’ on Tuesday, but did not take Portugal off the quarantine list, amid fears that France could soon join it as hospitalisations and cases rise. In a blow to the Portuguese economy that benefits greatly from tourism from the UK, the UK Government was warned that cases in Portugal … Read more
France reported the country’s first significant rise in the number of patients submitted to hospital due to coronavirus since the end of it’s lockdown in June. The number of people in French hospitals with Covid-19 rose by 34 to 5,045 over the weekend, the nation’s health ministry announced on Monday. On Tuesday, however, it leveled … Read more