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Covid infection rates at 'a very high level but not significantly translating to hospitalisations and deaths', says Jenny Harries

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The chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, Dame Henny Harries, has warned Covid-19 infections are at "a very high level" but are not translation into hospital admission and deaths.

She appeared on BBC Radio 4' Today program to warn of the increasing levels of infections of the virus all across the UK. She said: “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." Read more: School closes to two year groups for second time this term amid staff Covid cases It comes as the new Omicron variant continues to crash through the UK which has led to experts predicting a "signicat wave" of infection in England.

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