Flu season panic - more Covid-19 tests being taken but fewer positives coming up 

Covid-19 cases spiked as students came back to De Montfort University in Leicester for the new academic year at the end of September but this spike has finally started to fall.

Slowly, 'normal' life is resuming, although some people are still having to go to hospitals when they get the coronavirus.

Back in the beginning of October this year there was a rise in cases of Covid-19 in hospitals in Leicester, with 123 people in the university hospitals of Leicester infected with the coronavirus on Monday, October 10.

That has now fallen, with only 58 patients in the hospitals with coronavirus on Wednesday, November 9, a 52.9 per cent decrease in positive Covid cases since October 3.

Between November 1 and 7, a total of 47 people went into the hospitals with coronavirus. This shows a decrease of 44.7 per cent compared to the positive test statistics from the previous week. The number of positive tests and people with serious symptoms keeps dropping.

Will Drury had Covid around this time last year at the time he was a second-year aeronautical engineering student.

He said: “I had Covid and didn't have to go to the hospital.

"I had to do Covid tests before going to work at the time and I got a positive test - I took about four tests that day that came up positive and when I woke up the next day and did a couple more they were negative.

"I had Covid for one day and I know it was for one day as I had to test for work the day before I had the positive tests.”

Everyone is affected by Covid in different ways. Now that all restrictions have been lifted, people have been taking more tests during the flu season. Between November 3 and 9, a total of 3,855 tests were taken and reported. This shows an increase of 40.8 per cent compared to the week before.

This shows that more people have been testing but fewer positive cases are coming up, showing that flu season is causing panic but sometimes the flu is just the flu.