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The UK hospital death toll from coronavirus has risen by 97, the highest increase on a Wednesday in four months.
England reported 68 new deaths, Scotland had 15, Wales had 10 and Northern Ireland had four to bring the overall hospital count to 35,524.
It’s down slightly from 101 deaths on Tuesday, but it’s the largest daily total on a Wednesday since 97 were announced on June 17.
By comparison, the death toll on recent Wednesdays was 59 (October 7), 52 (September 30), 27 (September 23), 14 (September 16) and 12 (September 9).
The lowest increase announced on a Wednesday was September 10 on September 2, while the highest was 936, which was set on April 8 when the UK was going through the first peak of its outbreak.
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Scotland (1,429), Northern Ireland (1,217) and Wales (964) set new all-time highs for the daily number of confirmed cases.
The figures were released as Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced mounting pressure to impose a national “circuit breaker” blockade on England that would last at least a couple of weeks.
Johnson did not rule out the possibility of a “circuit breaker” when he appeared on Prime Minister’s Questions, but insisted he wanted to avoid the “misery” of another national shutdown, just two days after unveiling the new three-level lockout system.
Northern Ireland will enter a four-week “circuit breaker” on Friday, with pubs and restaurants closed except for take-out and delivery, and schools closed for two of those weeks, in a desperate attempt to stop the spread of Covid-19.
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Meanwhile, NHS England announced another 68 deaths, bringing the total number of hospital deaths in England to 30,662.
The latest victims were between 48 and 98 years old, and all but four (between 65 and 93) had known underlying health conditions.
The Northwest had the highest number of deaths, while the lowest number was recorded in the Southwest.
The number of deaths of Covid-19 patients by region:
Northwest – 25
Northeast and Yorkshire – 16
London – 12
Midlands – 7
East of England – 3
Southeast – 4
Southwest – 1
Scotland has recorded 15 coronavirus patient deaths in the past 24 hours, Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in urging Scots not to travel to high-risk areas of England, including Blackpool.
This brings the death toll according to this measure, of people who tested positive for the virus for the first time in the previous 28 days, to 2,572.
The Prime Minister said 1,429 people tested positive in the last 24 hours.
This is 16.4% of the newly evaluated people, compared to 17.2% the day before.
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She said 42,685 people have tested positive in Scotland, up from 41,256 the day before.
Of the new cases, 537 are in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 327 in Lanarkshire, 239 in Lothian, and 92 in Ayrshire and Arran.
There are 570 people in the hospital confirmed to have the virus, 43 in 24 hours.
Of these patients, 49 were in intensive care, 14 more.
Half of the people reported in Wednesday’s Covid-19 death figures were under 80 years old and a “small number” were under 60, Nicola Sturgeon announced.
Sturgeon warned that the coronavirus affects people of all ages.
She said: “Please never think that this virus only poses a risk to the lives of the elderly.”
“It represents a risk to all of us, and I ask everyone to take and treat that risk very seriously.”
Public Health Wales said their number increased by 10 to 1,688 deaths.
There were 964 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 32,216.
The number of deaths in Northern Ireland increased from four to 602.
It also reported 1,217 new cases, bringing the total to 23,115.
Meanwhile, a two-week circuit breaker in December could save thousands of lives in the short term and allow the UK a breathing space to control the Covid-19 epidemic, government advisers have said.
Graham Medley, a professor of infectious disease modeling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said it may be too late to implement a two-week circuit breaker at the October school. medium term, but December could be an option.
He and Matt Keeling, who advises the government and is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick, said a short, sharp shutdown would allow Test and Trace to improve and ensure that NHS hospitals are not overwhelmed with coronavirus patients.
On the other hand, scientists studying the effectiveness of a short-term “circuit breaker” lockout have cautioned that it will not save lives in and of itself, but may prevent the NHS from being overloaded.
Professor Matt Keeling from the University of Warwick said in a webinar: “This gives us an opportunity to reset the level of infection, it brings us back to a time when cases were lower, so it gives us more time to implement other measures.. “
He said it could also help other measures, such as testing and tracing, have a greater impact, but said the only way to save lives in the long term is to reduce rates of R.
“Steps must be taken after the break to ensure that we do not go back to the same situation we are in now: exponential growth.”
It came as new research found that three-quarters of acute and urgent care physicians believe hospitals are unprepared to cope with the next six months.
The findings of the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) survey were published when a council leader in Liverpool warned that the city’s intensive care units are currently over 90% full and occupancy levels are expected to beds will soon reach those seen during the first wave of Covid. -19.
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