well hospital admissions are rising
rapidly more than two-thirds of them
yesterday
were in the north of england where
infection rates are much higher
than the rest of the uk health leaders
have warned that the numbers going into
hospital in some places there
are at similar levels to the peak and
they've expressed alarm
at the trend and the infection rate is
rising on average across england there
are now
55 cases per 100 000 people
but across northern england the
situation is much worse look at the
figures the manchester area
has recorded 561 cases per 100 000 in
liverpool
it's 516 per 100 000
and now there are signs of an increase
further south in the midlands and
the east midlands with nottingham at 440
cases per 100 000 people our
correspondent dan johnson spent the day
there
in some of our biggest cities there is
fear it's terrifying because
we don't know how long this is going to
go on for i didn't really want to come
here today because they've gone up so
much
but we risked it there are appeals for
more action
we have got to do something i don't know
whether we're going to go down
hopefully not a full lockdown again like
we did last time but
who knows just the restrictions just to
get it over with reduce the spread
for a while i mean it's not ideal it's
not great it's not what i would like
and calls for greater clarity i look at
what you know the scots are doing and
that seems to be clearer messaging
from the scottish government but that's
a different issue in itself but
clear messaging it's the balance between
public health
and keeping the economy going how long
is it going to go on for if people are
not taking it seriously
that's what i'm worried about a lot case
numbers have surged here pushing
nottingham to fifth
highest in england this has been the
quietest day since
we opened in july and sam is seeing the
impact
i think that is because of the um the
rising cases
i'm sure that that's um people are just
more cautious about um
coming into the city you know and
spreading anything you know catching
anything
but over the last few days they have uh
increased
exponentially so those in charge are
asking for tighter rules
whatever restrictions come in i would
plead with the government to make them
straight
forward to make them easy to understand
people
some people are a small number of people
are
ignoring the restrictions now but others
are confused i've had
many emails this morning already asking
me what people should do
in leeds extra measures are already in
place but cases have kept rising
we just hope it doesn't come come to
that come back to a full lockdown again
where people can at least come and have
some sort of
um socializing some sort of eating out
experience
it's very sad because we are old
and our lives are our children
grandchildren
we can't see them i don't see how they
can restrict me even more
i don't mind if they close pubs off
together but back in the midlands
there are voices urging a different
approach all that you're doing is
stopping business stopping people
enjoying themselves
and we've achieved nothing as far as i
can see
so what do you think should happen um
let things go back to normal
take all the restrictions away but
further measures
are coming as this city and others
struggle to keep the virus under control
dan johnson bbc news nottingham
and as dan hinted there restrictions for
parts of england are expected to be
tightened next monday
including the possibility of closing
pubs and restaurants
the government is set to introduce a
tiered approach in which different parts
of england
are placed in different categories
labour has demanded to see the
scientific evidence behind the 10 pm
curfew rule
and it's accused the prime minister of
lacking clarity in his handling of the
pandemic
our political editor laura koonsberg has
this report
masks in the morning for the common
speaker
and his entourage a sign you can see
that once more the pandemic is at the
front of parliament's mind
questions the prime minister with doubts
here
over whether minister's strategy is
really working at all
20 local areas in england have been
under restrictions for two months
prime minister in 19 of those 20 areas
the infection rates
have gone up something's gone wrong here
i wish i could pretend mr speaker that
uh everything was going to be rosy in uh
in
in the midlands or indeed in london mr
speaker where alas we are also
seeing infections rise and that's why we
need a concerted
national effort not enough for labor
so will he level with the people of
barry burnley and bolton
and tell them what does he actually
think the problem is here
what we are doing is a combination of
national
and local measures which one week mr
speaker he comes to this house
and supports and the next week
mysteriously he decides to whisk
his support away
whether in sunderland or salford more
than 17 million people in the uk are
living with extra limits already
nearly 13 million in england but as the
disease still spreads
might there be more everyone around here
is desperate to avoid another national
lockdown
but with cases still rising further
clampdowns are likely to be on the way
the treasury is nervous about extra
rules choking off the economy
so he's looking at extra support for
pubs in the north of england and beyond
if they had to close for their part the
department of health is keen on a system
of different
tiers where parts of the country would
be put into different
clear categories but the opposition and
tory mps are getting more and more
skeptical as each day goes by
of whatever the government's proposing
there are a lot of
complicated factors here and number 10
is yet to decide
and as the need to act further seems to
become more urgent in westminster
tensions are rising among the
politicians who'll have to deal with
restrictions on the ground
too much is being decided behind closed
doors
without the detail being provided to
council leaders and mayors
and that is not acceptable given the
seriousness of the situation
the government's clearly moving to a
different phase of coping with covert
but with no announcements perhaps until
monday for the detail
you'll have to wait laura kinsburg bbc
news westminster
let's have a look at the latest official
coronavirus data from the government it
shows
there were 14 162 new coronavirus
infections recorded
in the latest 24-hour period a similar
number to yesterday
it means the average number of new cases
reported per day in the past week is
13 0002. hospital admissions jumped
significantly on sunday
now on average 496 people are being
admitted every day over the past week
and this number does not include
scotland 70 deaths have been reported
that's people who died within 28 days
of a positive covid test again a similar
number to yesterday
means on average in the past week 53
deaths were announced
every day which takes the total number
of deaths so far across the uk to 42
515. so with those official statistics
in front of us hugh pim is back with me
our health editor we're talking about
rising numbers of cases
rising numbers of hospital admissions
and alarm is being expressed at senior
levels
that's right hugh tonight the academy of
medical royal colleges
representing medical profession leaders
has come out and said that unless people
follow
very carefully the lockdown rules in
their area
and social distancing guidelines then
quotes there's a real danger of the nhs
being unable to cope
and possibly if admission numbers carry
on going up being
overwhelmed quote we could soon be back
where we were
in april now earlier nhs providers
representing trusts in
england sounded a similar warning chris
hopson the chief executive said although
admission numbers each day are well
below what they were at the peak that
conceals regional
variations and that health leaders in
the north of england
were saying that uh admissions were
rising so rapidly that they feared
current restrictions
weren't working and more was needed now
as we've been hearing there's a big
debate going on
across government in england about
precisely what restrictions might be
introduced next week
the interests of the economy being
considered to get the balance right
there but certainly whitehall sources
are indicating
tonight that these warnings from the
north of england about hospital numbers
are a cause for concern hugh many thanks
again hugh pim our health editor