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There could be 25,000 hospital admissions in the UK
When asked if it is not unrealistic to think that 25,000 people would be in the hospital by the end of November, Professor Sir Mark Walport, a member of Sage, said: “It is certainly not unrealistic to think about that.”
On hospital admissions, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today show: “France, which has a population very similar to ours, currently has around 16,000 people in hospital, it has 2,500 in intensive care beds compared to 852 here. , and about half of the ICU beds in France are occupied; we are seeing similar things in Spain.
And these are despite the fact that these countries are also cracking down.
“So the answer is that with our current measures, which are similar but with variations in different parts of Europe, there is still evidence that it is not, there is not as much social distancing as when we took drastic measures in the first wave and that is why we know that the risk is significant that the cases continue to grow ”.
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