'We are not going to put the Covid-19 virus behind us forever, we are going to have to learn to live with it,' he said. As of 9am on Sunday, there had been a further 24,248 lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases in the UK, the Government said. Projections presented to the Government by scientists at the University of Warwick in early June suggested that by the beginning of July there could be nearly 1,000 Covid hospital admissions a day. James Ward believes that, following the easing of all restrictions on July 19, hospital Covid admissions could peak somewhere between 5,000 and 15,000 a week. Prior to the arrival of the vaccines in December, there were roughly as many Covid cases in the over-60s as there were in the under-20s.

Source: The Nation July 04, 2021 17:48 UTC