Most omicron hospitalisations unintended
June 18, 2026
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Summary
Around 80% of English hospital admissions with coronavirus are admitted for other reasons
UK, 24th December
Omicron hospital patients, 366
Total omicron deaths, 29
UK, 27th December
Omicron hospital patients, 407
Total omicron deaths, 39
Omicron cases + 45,307
= 159,932
UK, 29th December
Omicron hospital patients,
+ 261 + 98 = 766
Total omicron deaths,
+ 10 + 4 = 53
UK data
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-omicron-daily-overview
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
SA data
SA hospital data
https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-africa/
US cases and deaths data
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases
Isolation down to 5 days is asymptomatic
20% of covid admissions caused by viral complications
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/28/covid-hospital-data-should-treated-caution-many-patients-admitted/
December 21, England
Covid patients in hospital
= 6,245
Up 259 from previous week
Of the 259, just 45 admitted because of the virus
Of the 259, admitted, 214 for other conditions but having also tested positive
“incidental Covid” admissions
Previous week, December 7 to December 14
Majority of hospitalisations were still delta
Primary covid cases were 59% of the 289 weekly rise
People currently in hospital with Covid
“incidental” cases, 1,813 out of 6,245
Highest so far
Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine, Oxford University
This is not the same disease we were seeing a year ago
The horrific scenes that we saw a year ago –
intensive care units being full,
lots of people dying prematurely –
that is now history in my view and I think…that’s likely to continue
Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers
What our guys are saying is that incidental cases are making around 25 to 30 per cent of cases that are arriving,
but that will vary from place to place
In London you would expect to see higher levels
lower in somewhere like the South West, where community infections are lower