What we’ve seen is a progression where — after the remarkable efforts which got the rates right down across the country — we first saw very small outbreaks, then we’ve seen more localised outbreaks which have got larger over time, particularly in the cities. Now what we’re seeing is a rate of increase across the great majority of the country.
It’s going at different rates, but it is now increasing. And what we found is anywhere that was falling is now beginning to rise and then the rate of that rise continues in an upward direction.
This is not someone else’s problem, this is all of our a problem.
This graph is a simple one. It simply shows the number of inpatient cases in England over the period from 1 August. Until that point, there had been a steady fall over a long period of time, right back from early April.
It then stabilised for a period and flattened out.
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