Covid hospital admissions in England slumped to two-month low

The Covid wave in the UK continued to decline today, with daily cases, deaths and hospitalizations falling again.

The latest government dashboard statistics show 1,169 virus records were registered, down 21% in one week, on Sunday, the latest date for data. This is the second time hospitalizations in many days have reached a new low within two months.

Meanwhile, 14,030 positive tests have been recorded in the last 24 hours, down 40.2% from 23,456 last week.

The daily figure, which has become increasingly unreliable with the removal of free tests, is the lowest since June 22, when 11,625 cases were confirmed last year.

The death toll also fell by 61.6% in a week to 248 today. However, last week’s total of 646 was likely an anomaly, with delays due to the Easter weekend.

Only 312,501 tests were reported yesterday, an 11% drop from the 351,100 recorded the previous Wednesday. The UK conducted 1.5 million tests per day at the height of the Omicron wave.

It came when the Scottish government announced that self-isolation requirements would be lifted this weekend in favor of a guide urging Scots to “stay at home” if they are not feeling well.

This means that Scotland will finally follow the rules in England and the rest of the UK. Scots with coronavirus symptoms no longer need PCR testing.

Mass testing in Scotland will end on April 30, which will see test sites shut down and contact tracing stopped.

The government says the Protect Scotland contact tracing app will be deprecated “soon”, but Scots are advised to keep the program on their phones in case they are needed again.

The National Health Service will withdraw from the emergency from Saturday.

Tests will continue to be offered to Scots working in the health or social sector, visiting hospitals or nursing homes, or being in care, unpaid carers or in prison.

But the biggest change to come into effect on Sunday will be the end of the requirement to self-isolate if you have symptoms of the coronavirus.

Instead, those who had a fever or were too sick to do their daily activities were asked to stay at home until they felt well enough.

The guideline was also adopted for children who were advised to stay at home if they had a fever and other Covid symptoms.

Since 1 May, the Scottish government has reported that the symptoms of the virus are: persistent cough; high temperature, fever, or chills; loss or change in your normal sense of taste or smell; shortness of breath; unexplained fatigue, lack of energy; muscle aches or pains; unusual hunger; headache; sore throat, stuffy or runny nose; and diarrhea, feeling unwell.

“The Scottish Test and Protect program was one of the key interventions in our response to Covid, whose success has largely depended on the outstanding staff and volunteers working at Test and Protection – my deepest gratitude to them,” said Lo Health Minister Humza. Joseph said Thursday.

“I would also like to thank the Scottish people for their dedication and willingness to work with Test and Protect when needed and to help protect their fellow citizens.

“However, we are aware that we are now in a different phase of the pandemic. “The main purpose of testing is to move from population-level testing to reduce transmission to a targeted response aimed at reducing the serious damage caused by the virus.”

The NHS will no longer be in a state of emergency after Saturday 30 April as we are now seeing a steady decline in new Covid cases. But we must continue to take a thoughtful approach to support the recovery and renewal of our NHS.

“This requires a balance between the ability of the NHS and the ability of the workforce to respond to increasing demand for urgent care and reduce the backlog of planned care.”

The announcement came despite Scotland having recorded 29 coronavirus deaths and 2,587 cases in the past 24 hours, according to the latest data.

The total number of people who lost their lives in 28 days after the Kovid result was positive increased to 12,035.

Data released by Public Health Scotland (PHS) on Thursday showed that 1,458 people were hospitalized with Covid-19 recently confirmed, up from 71 the previous day.

With the recently confirmed coronavirus, there were 23 people in intensive care, two fewer than the day before.

The data showed that the re-infection rate was 14.3%.

Meanwhile, the latest data from National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed that there were 121 deaths with Covid listed on the death certificate in the week to April 24, eight fewer than the previous week.

NRS figures differ from lab-confirmed coronavirus deaths announced by PHS on weekdays, as NRS figures include suspected or probable cases.

As of April 24, NRS data shows a total of 14,455 recorded deaths in Scotland, where Covid was listed on the death certificate.