
Chart shows daily numbers of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital, from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ last updated on Tuesday 5 January 2021 at 4:22pm GMT. Latest data provided on 28 December 2020. Data are not updated every day by all four nations and the figures are not comparable as Wales include suspected COVID-19 patients while the other nations include only confirmed cases. Chart reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Context: Jessica Elgot and Peter Walker, “Strict Covid restrictions could last months, Boris Johnson signals”, the Guardian, Tuesday 5 January 2021 20.16 GMT, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/05/almost-a-quarter-of-over-80s-have-had-covid-jab-boris-johnson-says
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