Hospital admissions are not rising despite increases in coronavirus cases, according to NHS England data.
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Cases of coronavirus have been rising nationally since the middle of July, and even earlier in Leicester.But scientists use hospital data to understand whether rising cases reflect more infections or more testing. Prof Chris Witty, the UK's chief medical adviser, has warned that we have"reached the limit of what we can do to open up society" without allowing room for the virus to return.rather than more infections.
And Blackburn overtook Leicester as the part of the country with the highest rate of infection in July.
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