and now SAGE suggests positive tests in mental health wards are added to daily admissions tally

  • Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith told MailOnline it was ‘really important’ to clarify NHS stats
  • Growing number of daily admissions were not primarily for Covid amid evidence Omicron is much milder  
  • Separate figures shows nearly a third of coronavirus patients actually caught the virus on hospital wards
  • MailOnline revealed four in 10 new Omicron hospital patients in London were admitted for a different reason

Furious Tory MPs today demanded the NHS clarifies how many Covid patients are primarily being treated for the virus amid concerns that the figures are being inflated by routine testing.

Mr Duncan Smith added: ‘The government has dragged its feet over showing those figures, I suspect because they know what will happen – it will reduce the numbers that they have going into hospital with Covid – in other words who are ill and have to go to hospital because of Covid.’

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