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Cancel Christmas and stay at home if festive bug strikes
Daily Express
|December 20, 2024
PEOPLE are being urged to consider ditching their Christmas plans and staying at home if unwell next week as flu cases continue to rise.
NHS data shows one in 20 hospital beds was taken up last week by a patient with a "festive bug" - flu, norovirus, Covid or respiratory syncytial virus.
Some 2,504 patients on general wards across England had flu, a 40% week-on-week increase. A further 125 were in intensive care.
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Norovirus accounted for 711 beds with 143 more closed due to infection risk. Covid patients took up 1,274 beds while 136 were needed for RSV.
Prof Sir Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said the health service had been "hit hard with an early festive flu season, putting increased pressure on staff as they prepare for the long winter".
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