The latest wave of Covid-19 may have peaked as the number of hospital patients in England testing positive is starting to fall, NHS data shows.
Figures from NHS England show the number of infections falling for the sixth day in a row, with a total of 12,529 people with coronavirus in hospital as of 25 July. This equates to an 11% drop from the previous week.
Patient numbers had been climbing through much of June and the first half of July, but the latest figures suggest this rise appears to have stopped after peaking at 14,044 on 18 July. This is slightly below the peaks reached during the two waves of infection earlier in the year.
