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Hospitals across the UK are seeing high levels of flu cases this winter.

The NHS in England has said it is on “on high alert” after seeing the highest ever number of flu cases in hospital for this time of year, in the week ending 14 December.

You can use our tool below to find out how many flu patients there are in hospitals near you.

Figures relating to flu cases in hospitals are collected in different ways in each UK nation.

In England it is the weekly number of beds occupied by patients with a laboratory confirmed flu case.

This data is provided at NHS Trust level. Trusts are organisations which include hospitals, community services and providers of other forms of patient care. You can find which trust your local hospital belongs to on the NHS England website.

In Scotland the figures relate to the number of patients admitted to hospital with a laboratory confirmed flu case taken between 14 days before the admission date and 48 hours after the admission date.

In Wales it is the weekly number of patients in hospital with a laboratory confirmed flu case taken from 28 days before the admission date if tested outside of hospital, or within two days after admission.

Figures for Scotland and Wales are provided at NHS Health Board level. Health boards are responsible for all frontline healthcare services. You can find which Health Board your local services belong to on the NHS Scotland or NHS Wales websites.

In Northern Ireland the figures show the number of new flu cases admitted to hospital that were acquired outside of hospital.

This data is provided at Health and Social Care Trust level. Trusts are responsible for providing local and regional health services. You can find which trust your local hospital belongs to on the NI direct website.

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The BBC’s Wyre Davies visits a holding compound at the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing, through which urgenaid for Gaza is currently passing after Israel eased an 11-week blockade.

The aid is being taken off Israeli lorries and inspected before being transferred onto lorries from Gaza.

Most of the aid is flour for the UN’s World Food Programme, which says it needs to bring in at least 100 lorries a day to meet the “very minimum” of the 2.1 million population’s food needs.

On Thursday, several WFP-supported bakeries resumed bread production after more than 90 lorry loads of aid were collected by UN teams inside Gaza, following a three-day delay over security concerns.

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A World Food Programme (WFP) worker has died while in detention in Houthi-controlled northern Yemen, according to the UN agency.

The WFP said the man was one of seven Yemeni staff “arbitrarily detained” by local authorities since 23 January. It is unclear when or how he died.

His death was announced a day after the UN said it would be pausing all operations in the northern governorate of Saada, a stronghold of the Iran-backed Houthi movement, over safety concerns.

The UN said it followed the detention by the Houthis of eight additional UN personnel, including six in Saada. More than 60 staff from the UN, international non-governmental organisations and foreign embassies were already being held.

“This extraordinary and temporary measure seeks to balance the imperative to stay and deliver with the need to have the safety and security of the UN personnel and its partners guaranteed,” UN spokesman Farhan Haq said.

In a post on X on Tuesday, WFP executive director Cindy McCain said the worker who died in detention was named Ahmed and that he was a “devoted humanitarian and father of 2” who had helped deliver life-saving food assistance.

According to the WFP, he had been working for the agency since 2017.

McCain said she was “heartbroken and outraged by the tragic loss”.

“Humanitarians are #NotATarget,” she added.

There was no immediate comment from Houthi authorities.

Yemen has been devastated by a civil war that escalated 10 years ago, when the Houthis seized control of the north-west from the internationally-recognised government and a Saudi-led coalition supported by the US and UK intervened in an effort to restore its rule.

The fighting has reportedly left more than 150,000 people dead and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with 4.8 million people displaced and 19.5 million – half of the population – in need of some form of aid.

Last month, the UN said it was actively engaging with senior Houthi officials to try to secure the release of all its detained employees.

Even though they provide a vital lifeline, UN agencies have regularly had problems reaching people in more remote areas outside the major towns and cities, with Houthi officials regularly reported to have obstructed the delivery of humanitarian assistance.

Human rights groups have also accused the movement of kidnapping, torturing and arbitrarily detaining hundreds of civilians.

In June, the Houthis claimed they had dismantled an “American-Israeli spy network” following the detention of 13 UN staff, as well as more than 50 NGO workers and an embassy staff member. The UN human rights chief said the allegation was baseless.

The UN Security Council is due to discuss the situation in Yemen later this week.

Last month, US President Donald Trump put the Houthis back on his country’s list of designated foreign terrorist organisations over their attacks on Red Sea shipping and Israel.

We “would like to assure the international organisations, including WHO that we shall always keep them up to date with ongoing developments,” Mhagama said.

Tanzania experienced its first Marburg outbreak in March 2023 in the Bukoba district. It killed six people and lasted for nearly two months.

The highly infectious disease is similar to Ebola, with symptoms including fever, muscle pains, diarrhoea, vomiting and, in some cases, death through extreme blood loss.

On Wednesday, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned of “further cases in the coming days as disease surveillance improves” in the latest suspected outbreak in Tanzania.

The WHO reported that patients, including healthcare workers, had been identified and were being monitored.

It added that the country’s rapid response teams had been deployed to help identify suspected cases and contain the outbreak.

The WHO cautioned that the risk of the suspected virus spreading in the region remained “high” because Kagera was a transit hub with much cross-border movement to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.

“We do not recommend travel or trade restrictions with Tanzania at this time,” Dr Tedros said on X.

The WHO said the global risk posed by the outbreak was “low”, and there were no concerns at this stage of the disease spreading internationally.

Following the reports, a team of experts was immediately deployed to Kagera region, where they collected specimens, said Tanzania’s health minister.

She said that laboratory results had ruled out the suspected Marburg outbreak but the minister did not clarify the total number of suspected cases investigated.

In December, neighbouring Rwanda declared an outbreak in the country, which had infected 66 people and killed 15, was over.

On average, the Marburg virus kills half of the people it infects, external, according to the WHO.

The Marburg virus is transmitted to humans from fruit bats and then through contact with bodily fluids of infected individuals.

There are no specific treatments or a vaccine for the virus, although trials are under way.

The 48-year-old man who died was a resident of Rome, while the injured man was 69, according to AFP.

Egyptian officials said the two tourists were transported to a hospital in Port Ghalib, around 30 miles north of Marsa Alam.

The swimming area in Marsa Alam will be closed and the incident is being investigated, authorities said.

In the past 10 years, there have been four confirmed fatalities due to shark attacks, according to data compiled by the independent Shark Research Institute.

The last to occur happened in June 2023 near Hurguda and involved a 24-year-old Russian man.

Late on Friday Reuters quoted Palestinian medics as saying at least 30 people were killed and many more wounded in Israeli strikes on Jabalia that hit several houses.

The Palestinian official news agency Wafa said at least 20 women and children were among those killed. There was no immediate Israeli comment.

Before the latest strikes the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said at least 39 Palestinians, many in Jabalia, had been killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza on Friday.

Residents told Reuters that Israeli tanks had reached the heart of Jabalia under cover of heavy air strikes and artillery fire, and said Israeli troops were destroying large numbers of homes every day.

Later on Friday residents reported that communications had been cut in Jabalia and two other towns in northern Gaza.

On Friday the head of the UN’s Office for Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA), Georgios Petropoulos told the BBC’s Newshour programme that families in Jabalia were enduring “atrocious conditions”.

“We can’t hit the alarm bell hard enough about how dire and dangerous the situation for civilians there is,” he said, speaking from Rafah in southern Gaza.

“Families that are in north Gaza, especially the ones that are in Jabalia camp surrounded by Israeli forces, are trying to survive in what can only be described as atrocious conditions under a very heavy bombardment.”

On Thursday the Israeli military said it had killed numerous fighters in close-quarters combat and dismantled military infrastructure.

Mr Petropoulos added he did not foresee getting aid into the north of Gaza becoming easier as a result of Sinwar’s death.

Very little aid has entered northern Gaza in October. Israel said it sent in about 30 lorries of supplies into northern Gaza on Friday including food, water, medical supplies and shelter equipment. But local health officials told Reuters that aid has not been reaching the worst-affected areas such as Jabalia.

“We don’t see a path to peace from where we are in Gaza,” he said. “I still see children dying on the floors of hospitals for the lack of hospital beds… and dialysis patients dying because there is no fuel allowed to get to hospitals.”

Israel has repeatedly denied it is preventing aid from entering Gaza. But the US has told Israel to boost humanitarian aid access in Gaza or risk having some US military assistance cut off.

On Friday an Israeli minister told the BBC that Israel had “blockaded” parts of northern Gaza, which include Jabalia.

Amichai Chikli told the BBC’s Newshour programme: “We’ve created a blockade with our forces. We allowed the civilian population to escape into the safe zone, and we prevented supplies to enter the blockade region, which was a very specific region where Hamas was trying to recover its administration and its military capabilities.”

He insisted this was “legal according to the international law”.