COVID instances continue to increase across the UK, with some counties reporting over 7,000 cases. The 12 counties with the greatest number of cases are shown below.

Covid case rates continue to surge to near-record levels, despite the Government’s move earlier this year to lift limits. Healthcare leaders, feeling “abandoned,” are urging the Government to rethink its Living with Covid program, as numbers continue to soar throughout the UK.

The Government’s ‘Living with Covid’ initiative repealed all legislative prohibitions, allowing the virus to be treated “like any other respiratory infection.”

However, rates continue to soar to unprecedented levels as NHS Confederation executives warn that exorbitant proportions of beds remain occupied by Covid patients and staff absences due to the infection.

NHS Confederation chair Lord Victor Adebowale told Times Radio: “What we’re facing here, is really quite alarming… and it’s alarming in two ways.

“One, a lack of acknowledgment that Covid is still with us. I was out with our members this week, and one NHS leader was telling me that 80 percent of the beds are currently taken up with COVID-19 patients.

“It’s the highest they’ve seen in two years, and he said the idea that Covid is over is just wrong.

“And I’m talking to other leaders who say 70 percent of our elective theatres are occupied because of a lack of staff – some of this is Covid, and some of this is NHS staff shortages.”

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