The North East has the UK's highest hospital admission rate for Covid-19 - but official figures show the virus's impact has been decreasing through October.
The latest Covid-19 data shows that while new subvariants continue to cause concern, the virus is still having much less of an impact on our hospitals than during previous waves.
That said, the UK Health Security Agency's surveillance highlights that the hospital admission rate in our region is 11.49 per 100,000 people in the population. However, the national figure has fallen week-on-week again - and is just 7.78 (down from 9.82).
