
Dame Jenny said people were being encouraged to “go about their normal lives” but in a “precautionary way”.
In England, almost 9,000 hospital beds were taken up with Covid patients on 30 June, a doubling of admissions since the start of the month. Data from the other UK nations is not as up to date but suggests a similar rise in June.
The latest rise in Covid infections – by about 500,000 cases last week according to survey data by the Office for National Statistics – is being driven by two new fast-spreading sub-variants of the Omicron variant, called BA.4 and BA.5.
Source: Covid: UK hospital cases set to rise, says health chief – BBC News

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