The third wave of COVID-19 hospital admissions in England may have peaked, new figures suggest. A total of 593 admissions of patients with coronavirus were recorded on July 31, NHS England said. This is down 19 percent on the previous week, and is the lowest daily number since July 16. The seven-day average for admissions has also started to decrease, falling four days in a row from 793 on July 27 to 744 on July 31. The figures are the first sign the recent drop in new cases of COVID-19 could be having an impact on hospital numbers. The number of new cases on July 31 is 16,019, down 72 percent on July 15 when new cases in England peaked. Any change in the level of newly reported cases of coronavirus typically takes a while to show up in hospital data, due to the length of time between someone testing …