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- From just 2,000 tests per day in March we now have the capacity to conduct over 300,000 tests per day – with 311,113 tests available on 5 July.
- Our testing rate is now among the best in the world, equivalent to one test for every ten people in the country – and is outpacing countries like Germany, Spain, Italy, and the USA.
- Daily deaths down from a peak of 945 on 14 April to 87 on 08 July 2020 (seven day rolling average).
- Ventilators up from 9,000 in March 2020 to 29,400 on 10 July 2020.
- Number of ventilator beds occupied down from a peak of 3,301 on 12 April 2020 to 188 on 9 July 2020.
- Over 2.1 billion items of PPE delivered since the start of the outbreak.
- 7 Nightingale hospitals created.
- Hospital admissions down from 3,432 on 1 April 2020 to 217 on 01 July 2020 (seven day rolling average).
- Over 2 million testing kits delivered to almost 9000 care homes.
- 99 per cent of GPs able to offer video consultations – up from 3 per cent before the crisis.
