The number of people with Covid in hospital has risen above 10,000 in England for the first time in nearly 10 months.
There are currently 10,462 patients with the virus in hospital.
That is the highest level since the start of March – and means the numbers have risen by 2,000 in just two days.
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During the second wave, the figure peaked at 34,336 on 18 January.
From the BBC live update webpage.
There will be a large number awaiting discharge too, it can be hard to discharge over the holidays. Covid stats or otherwise, looking forward to getting back into a normal routine next week.
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Just seen this figure is from BBC news. That says it all really.
They also report France has had over 200k cases reported today. Did anyone tell them vaccine passports will help? Oh wait, they already have them strictly enforced 
The figure you keep quoting is a week old.
Bear in mind that the BBC news article also explains that the festive period is usually higher as they struggle to discharge people over the period.
So we don’t know how many are actually waiting to just be discharged.
A lot of facts about this stuff can be selectively quoted or used in either direction. It’s something I’m becoming really aware of.
(Not that anyone is really doing it here but one statistic can be rationally explained but it doesn’t seem to matter either way to some)
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I quoted it once 
It says last updated 28 December 
Edit: Clicking “data” does in fact have the last update as the figure I quoted on 22 December. Bit ridiculous how the BBC have a latest figure but the dashboard doesn’t.
Gov website says that there has been a delay due to not receiving NI data.
Expected update 6pm.
Have a nosey then 
Well, it’s updated (6pm, 29th December) and the numbers haven’t changed 
Good old government sources.
Hospital data is more up to date for England alone, hence the UK level data is out of date awaiting backlog.
On the dashboard select hospitalisation, then nation filter for England, or NHS region London to see more up to date figures and trends for hospitalisation data.
It is not complete picture, but a subset of a more up to date one.
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I get my isolation freedom on Friday / Saturday 
tomorrow is 1st day I can take a lateral flow to see if it’s negative, if it is I have to be negative again on Friday. If it’s positive tomorrow then keep trying until my lucky dip comes back twice in the clear.
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I swear they can’t get much dumber 
can’t even protest at the correct site 
🤦
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Why would they storm a vaccination centre anyway? If you don’t want to be vaccinated fine, be that way, but what use is preventing others from choosing to? Madness.
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I guess if you believe the vaccines are part of a Chinese plot to install 5G into every British person or something like that then storming a vaccine Center is a perfectly logical thing to do.
If you can find them of course. The intellect needed to discover the plot is one thing. Finding one of several thousand sites with a huge ‘Covid 19 Vaccine Center’ banner in front of it requires another level of intellect entirely, apparently.
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I was speaking to a friend in the US and another friend who just tested positive but in Italy and I was really quite astonished at the costs for Covid testing (both LFT and PCR) in other countries.
The US costs something like $10 for an LFT, and the government have ordered 500,000,000 free ones (but with a population of like 350,000,000 that’s basically one free one each).
The UK we can get 7 per day for free (when able to) but even with the difficulty in ordering, we are ordering something like 900,000 per day. And all for free.
My friend in Italy is having to pay €75 for his PCR test. Now granted that might have something to do with his status as a non-Italian (but he is EU) but still, I got pinged by the NHS app and was sent a free PCR test and we can pretty much order one whenever for free.
I also heard from someone that in Ireland the LFTs aren’t free either.
Just a little nudge to us all really. We have got some good decent systems set up but we rarely seem to acknowledge our situation in that regard.
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The NHS is our biggest national treasure and we are so so lucky to have it.
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Wow the transport system is taking a bit of a battering thanks to Covid. For those of us in South London this is a pretty big deal as the mainline rail network makes up for what we don’t have in terms of an underground network down here.
I imagine this is being repeated up and down the country.
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So far I think it’s mainly just Southern Fail. And they already had engineering work on that part of the line apparently.
Still we are nearing 200,000 daily cases, I guess a lot of things are going to start breaking soon enough.
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The new rules on self isolation probably have a lot to do with the lack of tests.
If I’m right, you can avoid having to isolate (subject to other conditions too) if you are identified as a close contact by taking daily LFT’s for 7 days.
That’s not going to take long to get through a heck of a lot of tests.