Newsquest Media Group Ltd, 1st Floor, Chartist Tower, Upper Dock Street, Newport, Wales, NP20 1DW Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. The top five Covid hotspots in the area, based on high Covid rates which take into account the population size, are: Thame North (1323 cases per 100,000 people) Deaths in the region also rose, mainly due to increases in India and Indonesia. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. Huge swaths of red in Florida, Louisiana and Alabama swelled on COVID-19 tracker maps . Events January 2023. The University of Oxford has become a "Covid hotspot" after experiencing an "unprecedented growth in cases", according to its vice-chancellor. The university has set up a mobile testing unit for staff in its famous Radcliffe Square. Dr. Taison Bell, an infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia, said that in his intensive care unit, we will see an occasional Covid-19 case, but were not seeing a lot of cases that are leading to people being on the ventilator. Now, most of the people Dr. Bell is treating for Covid are older and either have pre-existing conditions that compromise their immune systems or lung function, or they havent been vaccinated. Greater Leys 547.0 2. Find out about virus variants and research. Experts agree that the risk from Covid-19 right now is low, and spring 2023 feels different from previous years. Weve reached a stage of stability where people are making choices to return their lives to something closer to normal, said Dr. Robert Wachter, the chair of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Read about our approach to external linking. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. 2023 BBC. Using these metrics - increasing COVID-19 cases over the past 14 days and increasing positivity rates over the past 14 days or a positivity rate of 10% or greater -we find . Comments have been closed on this article. from the United Kingdom's Health Security Agency (HSA) said that hospital admission rates declined for all age groups, but the highest levels are still in people over age 75. Most populous nation: Should India rejoice or panic? This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Some interactive areas of this site require javascript to function and so will be disabled until you In the South East Asia region, cases over the last 4 weeks were up sharply, mainly led by rises in India and, to a lesser extent, Indonesia and Thailand. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, In these places, the Indian strain is dominant, but cases are not necessarily high, Cases reported in the two weeks to May 15, Gunners from the Royal Horse Artillery and Bolton council workers distribute Covid tests in Bolton, May 24, Areas that have been given new Covid rules by the Government, Prof Ravi Gupta says one vaccine dose is not particularly protective against the Indian variant.
