There are more than twice as many people in Wirral’s hospitals with covid as there were last week and cases have also risen sharply.
On March 8, the most recent day for which we have figures, 39 people were being treated for the virus in Wirral. That is a major increase on the figure of 15, recorded a week earlier.
It is the first significant rise in hospitalisations we have seen since January, when a major rise in cases caused by the Omicron variant saw infections surge to record levels across the country. At the time, there were almost 100 covid patients in Wirral’s hospitals, far more than there are now.
