Health experts have warned the numbers are likely to carry on rising throughout July
Meanwhile, across England there were 11,049 people in hospital with Covid as of July 5, with 229 of them in mechanical ventilation beds.
The figures also show that 121 new Covid patients were admitted to hospital in Leeds in the week to July 3. This was up from 73 in the previous seven days., driven by a"substantial amount" of waning immunity among older people. The current wave is being driven by the variants Omicron BA.4 and BA.5, which are now the dominant strains of Covid-19 in the UK and are more transmissible than the BA.2 variant that caused infection levels to reach an all-time high earlier in the year.
Hospital admissions remain highest among over-85s, at 126.2 per 100,000 people, followed by 75 to 84-year-olds and 65 to 74-year-olds .Dr Mary Ramsay, UKHSA director of clinical programmes, said:"We continue to see Covid-19 case rates and hospitalisations rise in all age groups, with the largest increases in hospitalisations and ICU admissions in those aged 75 and older.
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