'Next Covid wave inbound?': Coronavirus 'concern' and work from home warning as older people abandon spring boosters
22.06.2022 - 17:23
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Coronavirus has been branded ‘concerning’ again in Manchester amid soaring case numbers ‘across all ages’, according to public health chiefs. The rise comes as there has been a significant ‘dropoff’ of eligible people coming forward to get spring Covid-19 vaccination booster jabs.
The health bosses warned that people should work from home and children should stay at home from school if they have symptoms to prevent the spread. Greater Manchester doctors have also sounded alarms that another Covid wave could be hitting the region, saying 'next Covid wave inbound? Staff, patients, colleagues, friends, family, neighbours all succumbing again'.
The number of people being admitted to hospital with Covid-19 in Greater Manchester has almost doubled in the space of a week. There were 251 Covid-related hospital admissions in the week ending June 12 - the latest figures available - compared to 133 the week before, totalling an increase of 89pc.
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Questions were raised at Manchester City Council’s health scrutiny committee this morning (June 22) about the latest rise in coronavirus cases. Green Party Woodhouse Councillor Astrid Johnson said: “There is a strong Covid rise at the moment, especially among young people.
“Because of waning immunity and longer presentation of the illness, I’m wondering what the response to that can and will be because we might have thought this issue had gone away or would reappear in the winter, but it definitely has not.”
“You’re exactly right. We’re quite concerned about our coverage rates of those entitled to a spring booster, particularly older people,” admitted Jenny Osborne, Strategic Lead for