More Covid-19 patients now in English hospitals than in April peak
A doctor has described their experience of working on Christmas Day as wall to wall Covid
NHS nurses in Personal Protection Equipment PPE outside Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool, during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic lockdown.
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More Covid patients in England’s hospitals than in the April peak THERE are now more Covid-19 patients in NHS hospitals in England than during the peak of the first wave in April, new figures have revealed. NHS England figures show there were 20,426 patients in NHS hospitals in England as of 8am on Monday, December 28, compared to the 18,974 patients recorded on April 12. The number of further lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus recorded in a single day in the UK also hit a new high of 41,385 as of 9am Monday, rising above 40,000 for the first time, according to Government figures. Cases figures do not include information from Scotland and Northern Ireland, which did not report data between December 24 and 28, meaning the true number is even higher.
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John Radcliffe Hospital, with inset of NHS worker in PPE treating Covid patient. Picture: PA UNDER-pressure staff at Oxfordshire s hospitals have seen the number of patients with Covid double in less than a month, with more than a dozen deaths over the Christmas period. Sam Foster, chief nursing officer at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH), which runs the John Radcliffe, said those on the pandemic frontline were facing a ‘hugely challenging’ situation though stressed tried and tested measures were in place to manage escalating admissions as cases in the county surge. The trust, which also runs the Churchill, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, and Banbury s Horton General Hospital, reported 12 deaths of patients who tested positive for Covid-19 between December 23 and 28, including five on Christmas Day.