England's chief nursing officer urges people to top up protection ahead of a busy winter for the NHS.
a further 133 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Saturday, and another 34,950 cases.
Meanwhile, more than 40 million people across the UK - 35 million in England - are being offered a jab this year in theAnd this includes, for the first time, all secondary school children up to the age of 16. Flu kills about 11,000 people on average every winter in England, and along with other winter viruses also leads to more than 1,000 hospital admissions a day.
Research shows those infected with both Covid and flu are more than twice as likely to die as someone with Covid alone. Dr Jenny Harries, head of the newly formed UK Health Security Agency, warned this week that the level of immunity to flu was likely to be lower this winter because very little of the virus had been circulating last year, because of social distancing and lockdown.
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