The Health Secretary didn’t repeat the First Minister’s encouraging comments of the 24th when she presented the briefing on the 26th but the trends are still going the same way, so the comments still apply:
These figures for hospital admissions and intensive care are giving us real and growing cause for optimism that the current lockdown is working to suppress the virus. That’s the good news, perhaps the less good news is that also tells us why we must stick with these lockdown restrictions, because as I’ve said many times before standing here, any easing up on that at all right now would risk us putting all that progress into reverse and the virus quickly running out of control again. So please stick with the restrictions because as you can see they are working. I am also, in some other good news, able to confirm today that since 5 March, a total of 2,271 patients who had tested positive for the virus and been admitted to hospital have been able to leave hospital, and I wish all of them well.
The number of patients requiring intensive care is still falling steadily after 14 days.
The number of cases hospitalised falling for 6 days after plateauing for two weeks.
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