The UK’s COVID alert level has been downgraded from level three to two.
The change was recommended by the four UK’s chief medical officers, the Department of Health and Social Care said.
A level two alert means that “COVID-19 is in general circulation but direct healthcare pressures and transmission are declining or stable”.
The chief medical officers said: “Hospitals and the wider health systems remain extremely busy overall but the summer BA 4 and BA 5 wave is subsiding and direct COVID severe illness is now a much smaller proportion of this.
“Severe COVID cases, direct COVID healthcare pressures, direct COVID deaths and ONS community positivity estimates have decreased.
“COVID remains present in the community and we may see an increase in cases with BA 4.6 and BA 2.75 circulating but do not expect this to lead to an immediate increase in hospital pressures.
“This will continue to be kept under review.”
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Since when was this a thing
Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb
TIL we still have an *alert level*.
Should be level 0.
Didn’t even realise we had Covid alert levels anymore.
But there’s still a pandemic!
Furiously washes my groceries.
Haven’t we been at level 0 since we were told to get back to work and don’t isolate?
33.33333333333333333333333333333333333 % reduction, yay!
Until the autumn and winter stats blow up again, as expected.
Anyway…..
It’s so over
Going back to school tomorrow and told that COVID restrictions no longer in place and we HAVE to use an undersized communal staff room…..