100,000 new swine flu cases in U.K.
THE number of people with swine flu in the UK DOUBLED last week to 100,000 cases.
There are now 840 people in hospital with the virus and 63 in intensive care.
Most of those hospitalised are aged 16 to 64, with 435 cases, followed by the under-fives, with 169 cases.
Among those aged over 65, 149 people are in hospital and there are 87 cases among young people aged five to 15.
Tower Hamlets in East London continues to have the highest number of GP consultations for people with flu-like illness.
It is seeing 792 consultations per 100,000 people, followed by Islington in North London with 488 consultations per 100,000.
Other badly affected parts of England include Greenwich, South East London, Leicester, and Telford & Wrekin, Shropshire.
The new data comes as a telephone service for victims of swine flu is launched which is capable of answering more than one million calls a week.
