Hospitalisations rising - but not as quickly as previous waves
Former chief scientific adviser Professor Sir Mark Walport has revealed the number of people in hospital with COVID is rising, but not with the intensity of previous waves.
This is the key metric we have been waiting for - to see if rising cases, driven by the Delta variant, was translating into more people getting seriously ill.
"Sadly we are in the grip of the early stages of a third wave of the virus and it is this Delta variant, the so-called Indian variant, which has a very significant transmission advantage over the previous Alpha variant, the so-called Kent variant - it's about 60% more transmissible," Sir Mark told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"We've got 7,000 cases on average per day at the moment, and a doubling time which is somewhere around a week.
"More than 90% of the new infections in the UK are of this variant, and it is rising in most parts of the country, though not all.
"The good news is we would be in real trouble if not for the enormous success of the vaccination programme and so we have got 75% of all adults have had the first dose and 50% who've had a second dose."
He added: "This variant shows some partial escape, particularly from the first dose - so first dose of vaccine is about 30% effective compared to 50% with the previous variant.
"We are starting to see hospital numbers rise, though fortunately with nothing like the intensity we saw previously."
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2021-06-14 08:26:15Z
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