Coronavirus UK: Hospital Covid admissions begin rising again after lockdown relaxation | Daily Mail Online
oh dear seems no one told the virus it was like the 10pm curfew it shouldn't spread in hospitals.
Hospital coronavirus admissions begin rising again after lockdown relaxation - after it emerged 10,000 patients caught Covid while ALREADY on wards
- Coronavirus hospital admissions have begun to rise again after the second national lockdown was eased
- Official figures show that the rise in hospitalisations was mainly drive by increases in Tier 2 London
- Data also show that 10,000 people contracted the virus while being treated for other illnesses in hospitals
Official figures also show that more than 10,000 people acquired Covid-19 when they were being treated in hospital for other illnesses, with one NHS Trust recording that nearly 40 per cent of Covid-19 cases they were treating had been contracted in its wards.Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said that 139 of its 357 Covid-19 patients (nearly 40 per cent) they had treated had caught coronavirus there, while board papers showed that five patients had died.
Data submitted to NHS England by trusts with A&E departments that have treated over 100 coronavirus patients since August show that more than 16 per cent of people treated for the virus in hospital had caught it there.
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust had the second highest proportion of cases, after Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, at 37 per cent (or 146 cases). Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust recorded 34 per cent (or 91 cases).
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust recorded that nearly almost 22 per cent of Covid-19 patients they had treated were hospital acquired infections.
Data submitted to NHS England by trusts with A&E departments that have treated over 100 coronavirus patients since August show that more than 16 per cent of people treated for the virus in hospital had caught it there.
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust had the second highest proportion of cases, after Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, at 37 per cent (or 146 cases). Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust recorded 34 per cent (or 91 cases).
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust recorded that nearly almost 22 per cent of Covid-19 patients they had treated were hospital acquired infections.
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