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- Covid-19 hospitalisations in the UK rose 37% week-on-week, the highest in nearly a year, per the UK Health Security Agency.
- Hospital admissions reached 2.73 per 100,000, up from 2.0.
- Rates remain lower than in previous years, but an Autumn wave is possible.
- Stratus variant is spreading, with confirmed cases at 8.4% of the population and mutations XFG and XFG.3.
