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A HEALTH chief has expressed extreme concern after the Covid-19 infection rate rose above the national average. Dr Tony Hill, interim director of public health in West Sussex, has urged residents to keep within the new lockdown restrictions after the latest figures show the infection rate rose above the average rate in England. For the seven days up to December 30, the infection rate in West Sussex is shown to be 555.2 per 100,000, which is higher than the national average at 518.5. Figures for each seven day rate, which are available on the county council s online dashboard as well as the government s national one, does not include data from the most recent days, to allow time for test results to come through.
Maternity services are facing disruption across the South East because ambulance staff are too busy dealing with spiralling coronavirus hospitalisations.
The East Sussex NHS Trust and Brighton and Sussex NHS Trust have both suspended services for home-births and their stand-alone midwife-led units because they cannot guarantee an ambulance can turn up if there is an issue.
Four other trusts all in Kent, one of the places worst-hit by England s second wave have also paused their home-births service for the same reason.
It comes as hospital chiefs warn hundreds of intensive care patients may have to be moved between regions to take the pressure off the most over-stretched wards.