i think the significance of this is this is the head of uk health security agency, damejenny harriesassessment of where we are with covid, and she is acknowledging that there is another wave at a moment and that it is not finished and she is saying if you look at the numbers, she didn't give a timeframe on this, but it could well be more in hospital with covid than there were back in march. that was a previous peak, around 16,500, currently around 9000 in hospital now, so it is warning it could be higher because it is fuelled by these new variants of the variant 0micron which spread more rapidly. it has to be said, if you look at hospital numbers they are not all by any means people who have gone on primarily because of go with, a certain number have other conditions and then tested positive, but it does put more pressure on the nhs and nhs providers representing rustling and have said this means there will be a bumpy ride over the coming months, with existing pressure already there on the nhs, damejenny harries also warned the flu season may come earlier in the autumn as well as ano

damejenny harries also warned the flu season may come earlier in the autumn as well as another covidther a cautionary note from her today. after reports of a shooting in copenhagen, police say one person has been arrested in connection with the shooting at the fields mall. several shots had been fired there in the danish capital copenhagen. dozens of heavily armed officers have been deployed to the shopping centre. they have confirmed one person has been arrested in connection with the shooting, there. more on that as we get it. the government's spending watchdog is to review borisjohnson�*s pledge to build a0 new hospitals by 2030 — to see if it still represents good value for money given spiralling inflation. details of the national audit office review first emerged in a letter to the shadow health secretary, wes streeting. but the department of health and social care insists the plan is on track to deliver a0 new hospitals by 2030. saffron cordery, is interim chief executive of nhs providers, which represents hospitals and trusts across england. earlier, we asked her if the govern

the chief executive of the uk health security agency, damejenny harries, has warned that the number of expected to rise again. the latest uk figures show that infectionsjumped by more than 0.5 million in a week. our health editor hugh pym is here with the latest. huw, today we've had a warning from a senior official that we are in a new covid wave and the numbers will continue rising from here. let's look back at the trend for community infections charted by the weekly office for national statistics survey. this suggests that 2.3 million people had the virus in the week tojune 24th, compared with nearly five million at the end of march, when there was a surge driven by a variant of omicron ba.2. but the level is rising fast thanks to new variants, and today, we learned what health officials think might happen in the weeks ahead. it doesn't look as though that wave has finished yet so we would anticipate that hospital cases will rise and it's possible, quite likely, that they will actually peak over the previous ba.2 wave. so here are those covid hospital numbers. the most up to date fi

damejenny harries also warned that the flu season may come earlier in the autumn, as well as anotherunny spells and scattered showers. as we go through tonight, we continue to see a feed of showers and a few spells of rain across scotland, northern ireland, northern england and eventually into northern wales into the early hours. to the south of that, though, it's a largely dry picture with patchy cloud and clear spells. temperatures fairly similar to where they've been over the past few nights, sitting between 8—13 celsius. tomorrow, then, a fairly blustery start to the day across scotland, northern ireland, northern england, the winds tending to ease across northern ireland and northern england. a mixture of sunny spells and showers to be found here, although fewer showers than we've seen on sunday. for central, southern england and wales we'll see a band of cloud slip its way south, but sunny spells following on behind, with temperatures at a maximum of 23 celsius. and then a quick glance at the week ahead — temperatures are going to pick up across the board, but particularly in t

damejenny harries also said the flu season may come earlier than usual in the autumn, possibly coincidingople should go about their normal lives, but in a precautionary way. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. at least six people have died after a section of glacier fell onto a group of mountaineers in the italian alps. eight others were injured in the incident on the slopes of marmolada in the dolomites. the area has seen unusually hot weather in recent days. local officials say around 15 hikers were in the area at the time, and there are fears the death toll may rise. tens of thousands of people have been told to leave their homes in sydney following torrential rain and flash—flooding in australia's largest city. up to 35 centimetres of rain have hit certain areas. the emergency services minister for new south wales says the situation is "life—threatening". thejordanian prime minister has announced the dismissal of several officials at aqaba port after an investigation into a gas leak found negligence and deficiencies in safety protocols. 13 people were killed and

damejenny harries is the chief executive of the uk health security agency.e uk is doing to combat the virus. well, forthe uk, the risk to individuals currently is no different today than it was yesterday following the who announcement, but of course, that doesn't mean that we are not being very proactive in our interventions to try to prevent any unnecessary transmissions of the virus, and we've got a number of different programmes in place. obviously, the first one is to ensure that individuals know what to look for, and your newsreader has just gone through some of those signs and symptoms, but equally, we have also put in place a vaccination strategy here, firstly, high—risk contacts have been in exposed, but particularly now we are offering vaccination to individuals who are identified as likely to be at high risk. but we are hoping to do is prevent cases coming on board. you will remember when we cast our minds back to the early days of the covid—i9 pandemic. in a similar way, the symptoms with this are things like, we are told, a rash, fatigue, muscle

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