Government figures released the total number of coronavirus cases recorded in the UK up to 3.39m. It comes as NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens revealed someone in Britain is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus 'every thirty seconds'. 'Since Christmas Day we've seen another 15,000 increase in the in-patients in hospitals across England, that's the equivalent of filling 30 hospitals full of coronavirus patients. Public Health England revealed weekly Covid cases have fallen in every age group except the over-80s, despite the spread of the highly infectious variant first spotted in Kent which officials feared couldn't be contained. Figures for Covid deaths in English hospitals today revealed patients who died were aged between 29 and 103.

Source: Daily Mail January 17, 2021 14:14 UTC