Three more deaths have been recorded as East Lancashire Hospitals record highest hospital daily deaths. In the country, eight hospital trusts recorded Covid-19 deaths today, with a total of 12 deaths recorded in NHS hospitals. The hospital trust, which operates Royal Blackburn Hospital and Burnley General Hospital saw two deaths on Monday (May 31) and one on May 28. On May 29, the hospital recorded one Covid-19 death and two others on May 28 meaning six Covid-19 deaths have been recorded by the trust the past seven days – one more than the week before. The other seven hospitals each recorded two or one death in today’s figures.
A new mobile testing site will be available at Ewood Park People who live, work or study in parts of Blackburn where Covid cases are rising are strongly encouraged to take a Covid-19 PCR test, whether they are showing symptoms or not, to help track the spread of the latest variant of concern. Those in areas with BB1 and BB2 postcodes are asked to come forward and take a test as the borough has now taken the top spot in the national table of areas with the most Covid cases. Blackburn with Darwen Council say this is due, in part, to the latest variant of concern, the variant first identified in India which is now known as VOC-21APR-02.
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People in East Lancashire are being asked to only attend A and E if they have a life-threatening condition after they are reporting to be very busy. East Lancashire Hospital Trust, which runs Royal Blackburn Hospital and Burnley General Hospital, has been busy through the day and are asking people to use GP or NHS 111 services to check symptoms and determine whether they need to attend Accident and Emergency. Assistant Director of Nursing for Blackburn Hospital A and E, Cheryl Doyle said: We are extremely busy today in the emergency department and prioritising our urgent and emergency cases. We are asking your help in the community for those patients that thing they need to come to ED that they utilise the GP services and NHS 111 first to check for symptoms and only attend the emergency department for life threatening conditions.