In the 2 weeks since England ended COVID-19 restrictions, the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths are back on the rise -- a reversal of the overall downward trend that had appeared in the last month.
March 11, 2022
Legal COVID-19 restrictions ended on Feb. 15 in Northern Ireland and are set to be phased out on March 21 in Scotland and on March 28 in Wales.data confirms the rise in numbers. Overall for the UK over the last 7 days, the number of new infections was up 46.4%, deaths were up 19.5%, and patients admitted to hospital was up 12.2%. Hospitalizations and deaths often lag new infections by several weeks.
The latest ZOE data from newly symptomatic app users who logged positive swab tests, suggested an average of 175,189 new daily symptomatic cases of COVID-19 in the 2 weeks ending March 7 – an increase of 20.4%.COVID cases were rising in all age groups, including among those aged 55 and older and the double vaccinated, the ZOE analysis suggested.