Englands hospitals are under siege from a record spike in mutant flu cases.
Surveillance programmes that monitor Englands outbreak suggest flu hospital admissions are up 55 per cent on last week alone.
Figures show more than 2,600 beds alone were taken up by flu patients every day last week, the highest ever for this time of year.
Of these, 106 were in critical care beds, up over a third on the 69 logged last week.
In seven NHS trusts alone, hospitalisations have more than quadrupled on the previous week.
UK supermarkets running out of medicine and handwash superflu
Supermarkets across Britain are seemingly running out of medicine and handwash amid this superflu outbreak.
There were empty shelves in Tesco in Cambridge today as the store ran out of Lemsip and Strepsils.
The supermarket was also running low on Panadol, Paracetamol and Nurofen as customers rush to stock up on medicine.
Sainsbury's supermarket in Cambridge had also run out of foaming handwash, whilst Boots in Cambridge had run out of Ibuprofen, Nurofen and Night Nurse.
Flu patients in hospitals up 55 per cent in a week
There were an average of 2,660 patients a day in hospital with flu in England last week – a rise of 55 per cent on last week.
NHS England said there were now enough flu patients to fill more than three whole hospital trusts.
Projections have suggested there could be between 5,000 and 8,000 hospital cases by the end of this week. The highest ever recorded was 5,400.
