Covid UK: Hospitalisations TRIPLE in Indian variant hotspot Bolton

The number of people in hospital with coronavirus in Bolton has more than tripled in a fortnight as the Manchester borough grapples with an outbreak of the highly-infectious Indian variant. However, both Pfizer and AstraZeneca's jabs were only 33 per cent effective at blocking symptoms of the Indian strain three weeks after one dose, compared to 50 per cent against the Kent variant. But outbreaks remain flat in other hotspots, such as Preston, Hillingdon and Ealing Nationally hospital admissions remain flat, with about 100 people being admitted every day with Covid across the UK, on average It has meant that the number of inpatients with Covid has also been stagnant, despite an uptick in Bolton The latest analysis of the Indian variant's spread comes from the Sanger Institute, one of the largest variant-testing labs in the UK. AUTHORITY Bolton Blackburn w D Sefton West Lancashire Stevenage Nottingham South Northants Bedford Chelmsford Hillingdon Camden Hounslow Greenwich Croydon Bromley Dartford Sevenoaks Canterbury Rushmoor Hart Ribble Valley Preston Fylde Burnley Rossendale Chorley Central Beds East Northants North Herts East Herts West Oxfordshire Bristol Wiltshire Test Valley Swindon Reading Woking Havering Barking & Dag Barnet Ealing Slough S Oxfordshire Wigan INFECTION RATE 434.0 215.1 22.4 9.6 10.2 22.8 16.9 142.5 5.6 39.1 8.5 47.5 26.0 29.5 19.6 8.0 9.9 34.5 22.2 21.6 21.4 49.8 9.9 60.7 57.4 55.8 35.0 15.9 6.7 6.7 15.4 14.5 6.2 7.9 19.4 33.4 16.9 6.9 11.3 9.9 35.7 25.4 4.2 34.1 WEEK GROWTH up 72.6% up 87.2% down 54.1% down 35.3% down 18.2% down 35.0% down 50.0% up 20.5% down 44.4% down 7.0% down 39.5% down 13.4% up 21.0% up 14.0% up 41.3% down 50.0% up 140.0% up 533.3% down 27.6% down 32.3% up 44.4% up 40.0% down 42.9% up 22.7% up 215.4% up 61.0% up 83.6% down 31.8% down 10.0% down 11.1% up 183.3% up 4.7% down 53.7% down 16.7% up 19.4% up 68.8% up 112.5% down 45.5% down 35.1% down 48.0% down 8.3% down 5.0% down 66.7% flat The places where the Indian strain overtook the Kent variant in the most recent week were: Ribble Valley, Preston, Fylde, Burnley, Rossendale, Chorley, Central Bedfordshire, East Northamptonshire, North Hertfordshire, East Hertfordshire, West Oxfordshire, South Oxfordshire, Bristol, Swindon, Wiltshire, Test Valley, Reading, Woking, Slough, Havering, Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Ealing. Data revealed Pfizer's vaccine was 88 per cent effective against the Indian variant in preventing symptoms after two doses, compared with 93 per cent against the Kent strain.