Dame Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, has said Covid-19 infections are at “a very high level” but that they are not translating into hospital admissions and deaths. She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “There are around three-and-a-half million people in the last week up to that point, up to March 25, which is a very high level.
“But what we’re not seeing of course is a significant translation of that into serious illness, hospitalisations and most importantly, deaths. There has been a small uptick in deaths in the last week and again… some hospitals are coming under significant pressure and we shouldn’t underestimate that.
“But overall, immune defences through the vaccination programme has been really successful and of course we now have treatments”.
