New figures indicate Covid cases are at the second highest level in a year
This graph shows the ‘positivity rate’ of those with symptoms in hospitals testing positive for Covid. This is not the same as the prevalence in the general population, which will be much lower, scientists stress.Covid cases are close to their highest level for more than a year after numbers started rising again in the last week,
This is the second highest level in more than a year, just behind the 13.2 per cent figure recorded a fortnight earlier, on 14 July.Although the data is for England, Covid levels have been broadly similar across the UK throughout while separate wastewater monitoring in Scotland also indicatesScientists cautioned that these figures cannot be taken as a precise estimate for the level of Covid in the general population.
Experts said the small increase in cases last week suggests infections are stabilising but they warned that levels remain high and that they could well start to rise more sharply in the coming weeks.: “While the number of Covid infections appears to be stabilising, there is still a lot more infections around than would be expected for this time of year.
“Crowding at the Olympics and the mixing of people from all around the world is not surprisingly contributing to the spread of Covid. The worry is that the return of athletes and audiences to their home countries will further exacerbate the spread of the virus” Professor Young said. She adds: “The closest we can get to prevalence in England is wastewater monitoring in Scotland. Wastewater monitoring cannot be directly related to overall prevalence because how much virus is picked up in wastewater depends a lot on individual people’s responses to infection and the variants involved.
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