Coronavirus cases rise in Lincolnshire
However serious illness and deaths remain relatively low
A warning's gone out about coronavirus after the number of cases across Lincolnshire have more than doubled in 3 weeks.
This week marks 2 years since the start of the first lockdown, with no legal restrictions in place anymore but with the number of infections rapidly rising health bosses are urging caution .
We spoke to Lincolnshire's director of Public health Derek Ward:
"We've seen it when we've been going into very significant waves throughout the past couple of years".
"We've had a number of waves but since we've been measuring infection in the population where we are now is higher than last September".
"What's happening is people are catching it or getting very mild disease or not having any noticeable symptoms and because of that and because people aren't testing as much they're passing it on more".
However it seems most cases aren't too serious.
Here's Derek Ward again:
"We've seen a little bit of an increase in the number of people in hospital who have Covid but we haven't seen an increase in the numbers who need specialist treatment".
"We're not seeing intensive care beds occupied by people with Covid which is very different from what we saw in the first 3 waves."