Sheffield hospitals reveal number of patients currently being treated for Covid-19

Hospitals in Sheffield are currently treating 406 Covid-19 patients, a slight increase from the 399 reported by Public Health England on January 19.
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, however, reported a drop in a number of patients being treated in intensive care, with 30 patients compared with 33 earlier this week.

As of Thursday (January 21), Sheffield has recorded a further two deaths, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths to 717 since the pandemic hit.

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Latest figures by NHS England have also shown that more than three quarters of major hospital trusts in the country have more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave of the virus.

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Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield

This means some 115 out of 140 acute NHS trusts were recording a higher number of Covid-19 patients at 8am on January 19 than at any point between mid-March and the end of May 2020.

This includes 13 of the 14 acute trusts in eastern England, 14 of the 15 acute trusts in south-west England, and all 19 acute trusts in south-east England.

The figures, which have been published on the Government’s coronavirus dashboard, also show that 31 of the 140 acute trusts were recording their highest ever number of Covid-19 patients on January 19.

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NHS England also reported a total of 3,768 hospital admissions of people with Covid-19 on the same date, a drop of nine percent on the equivalent figure a week ago on January 12.

All regions have recorded a week-on-week decrease in daily admissions apart from north-east England/Yorkshire (up 6 percent) and north-west England (up 1 percent).