➡️ One in four coronavirus patients in hospital for non-Covid reasons ➡️ Covid surge widens Japan's emergency ➡️ Hunt for certainty over UK case numbers Friday evening's coronavirus update
Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening. We'll have another update for you on Saturday morning.The latest NHS data for England suggests 23% of Covid infections in hospital - or nearly one in four -. The government says the new data will help scientists to track to what extent vaccines are reducing severe Covid.
The Department for Health and Social Care says this measure is still "the most important" because of the impact Covid-positive patients have on NHS capacity and workforce pressure.Our health correspondent James Gallagher considers how a flurry of data on the spread of Covid has not resolved debates about the state of the pandemic in the UK. The dramatic drop in daily cases, reported widely over the past week, has not yet been backed up by other key methods that track the virus.
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