Increase in admissions over Christmas period comes as junior doctors stage longest strike in NHS history in pay dispute
More than 1,300 people are in hospital with flu across England, with the figure having increased by more than a third over the Christmas period, according to figures released by the NHS.
There were an average of 1,313 people in hospital with the virus each day during the week ending 31 December. That was an increase of a third on the week before, when the figure was 942.
