we start with the latest debate on the
measures in place
to slow down the spread of coronavirus
council leaders and regional mayors in
some of
england's biggest cities including leeds
liverpool newcastle and manchester
where new cases are rising sharply have
written to ministers
warning that the current set of
restrictions is not working
and they are especially critical of the
10 pm rule
for pubs clubs and restaurants in
hospitals across england
they have recorded the biggest rise in
admissions in a single day since the
month of june
well new cases of the virus in the north
of england have continued to rise
despite the local
lockdown restrictions that are imposed
on millions of people
but cases in the south of england are
relatively low
in comparison our correspondent dan
johnson reports now from greater
manchester
in the student streets of fallowfield
the mood is darkening
there's growing concern here as case
numbers rise and there's more confusion
as the layers of rules are built on
ian's lived here his whole life
it needs to either be in lockdown are
not in lockdown we're neither masked up
not massed up one or the other not half
baits bit of this six or one half a
dozen of the other and basically
nothing all local people that have lived
local said
oh god when students come back this is
what's going to happen
we've got a second influx of it i think
we should go back to being loathed
you know pop a lot down again
but leaders of the worst affected cities
say they don't want another lockdown
their letter makes clear they think the
existing restrictions aren't working
are confusing and counterproductive and
they've called for more shared decision
making
we're facing the worst of both worlds
here the infraction rates going up the
econom economy of our cities tanking
and so we decided to come together and
just really to stress the government the
message we've been putting across so
many times
work with us locally on our floor i
think
seven or eight people got tested all who
are positive the university of
manchester has seen
more than a thousand cases adam and his
flatmates have been isolating for ten
days
one after they expect us to all do like
honestly we are all young we will have
fun we've had like
a pretty poor six months what was they
expect yeah
we also a lot of us didn't have a choice
so we're all kind of putting this
accommodation
and we're all gonna get it in the end
we now need to introduce a container
approach with the universities
just to manage transmission over the
next
three weeks and then take additional
measures if necessary
the council's been delivering letters to
residents saying that the return of
university students has had an expected
impact on the r number here and the
relief let's reminding people they
shouldn't be partying
but there are voices here that feel it's
just too easy too simple to blame
students when there are other things
going on
i feel like they have been duped and we
have been due to
we all share the laundrette the
supermarkets
public transport inevitably it will hit
communities like ours and we do have a
higher number
of vulnerable people both socially
deprived and people from brain community
and elderly people as well it's so
destroying for us
to see people leave here at 10 o'clock
go to the local shop buy a load of booze
and then go to a house party
ben's built his bar business here based
on student trade
we're down 60 on our revenue and for me
the government either needs to shut us
completely
and give us full support or they need to
let us trade if it carries on the way it
is
we're not going to survive the
government says it's working hand in
hand with local leaders ramping up test
and trace
and supporting those in isolation it's
important to say
not everywhere with students has
problems and not everywhere with
problems
has students but here the universities
have announced they're moving most
courses online to try to suppress the
virus
and other big cities embraced for their
own case numbers to rise
dan johnson bbc news manchester
and as we've been reporting the rate of
coronavirus infections in the uk
has almost doubled in a week our medical
editor fergus walsh has been considering
the various factors
which could be driving the new increase
there is a north-south divide with covid
cases and hospital admissions have been
rising
sharply in cities in the north of
england where much of the population
faces
extra restrictions while they're
substantially lower in the south
if we look at three hot spots for covet
in the north of england
manchester had cases
per hundred thousand population
liverpool
487 and newcastle 435.
now contrast that with three cities in
the south
bristol had 46 cases per hundred
thousand population
norwich 32 and london
60. what about those who are getting
covet
in the northwest of england as in other
areas the highest rates
are among people in their 20s you can
see how
sharply it's risen in recent weeks in
more vulnerable age groups people in
their 60s it's risen
there too as it has among people in
their 70s
and among the 80 plus by contrast in the
south of england
covert cases haven't yet started to rise
much
in older age groups except in london
all that is reflected in daily hospital
admissions
on the 3rd of october there were 130
coveted patients admitted to hospitals
in the northwest
117 in the northeast and yorkshire
but only 10 in the southwest 19
in the east of england and 38 in london
every day one and a half million people
use this
covid symptoms app from king's college
london
it's shown there are consistently five
times as many cases
in the north of england compared to the
south and there are several
possible explanations for this you've
got the deprivation
of the population and definitely we do
see uh
twice the rates of infection in deprived
areas according to our maps
then i think you've got um people not
working
uh as much at home in the north compared
to the south
daily covered deaths were more than 10
times higher at the peak in april
but the concern is that unless
coronavirus cases
are brought under control in the north
hospital admissions
and eventually deaths will just keep
rising
fergus walsh bbc news time for our look
at the latest official government data
on coronavirus
and it shows that there were 14 542
new infections recorded in the latest
24-hour period
and that means the average number of new
cases reported per day in the past week
is 11
994. hospital admissions as i mentioned
earlier jumped significantly on sunday
on average 470 people were being
admitted every day over the past week
that number does not
include scotland 76 deaths were reported
of people who died within 28 days
of a positive covert test and that means
on average in the past week 53 deaths
were announced every day
and that takes the total number of
deaths so far across the uk to 42
445. i'd like to talk a little more
about the figures on
hospital admissions and our health
correspondent sophie hutchinson
is with me what like can you shed on
that well counting the number of people
admitted to hospital with covid19 is one
of the most reliable measures we have
of how this pandemic is developing
today's figures
are concerning until now hospital
admissions had been doubling on average
every two weeks but if you look at today
that most the latest figures that we
have
they show a sharp jump a doubling in
just about a week
um the figures from last sunday as you
were saying
478 people admitted with covert 19
compared to
241 the week before
it's also worth noting that wales has
seen a sharp rise
as well so far neither of these rises in
england or in wales
has translated into a sharp rise in
deaths but we do know
there's usually a lag of about two weeks
before death rates are impacted where
are these hospital admissions well
they're in areas where we've seen the
infection
surge in the northeast the north west
and in yorkshire
and now infections seem to be taking off
in nottingham as well the rate has
increased from
71 per hundred thousand people to
440 per hundred thousand people
in just a few weeks and health officials
there are expecting more restrictions
sophie milly thanks again for the update
sophie hutchinson therefore