She tested positive for coronavirus after coming down with symptoms after Christmas and has praised critical care staff and the Elsing ward for looking after her.
Amy Brown, 25, has thanked staff at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital for caring for her after she was hospitalised with coronavirus.
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Miss Brown, who has an underlying immunity condition and was discharged on Wednesday, said: I m discharged home and Covid free, just left with the tired aftermath. It was an awful time but I am still one of the lucky ones. I was always generally careful. I could have picked it up from a food item in the store or someone brushed past me not keeping distance or even a door handle, but being vulnerable my immune system wasn’t quite strong enough to handle it.
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Kenneth Ireland was the first patient at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital to receive his coronavirus vaccine.
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The first patient to receive a coronavirus vaccine at Norfolk s largest hospital has returned for his follow-up jab. Today our Chief Nurse @DrNancyFontaine joined our vaccination team and Kenneth Ireland, the very first patient who got his Covid-19 vaccine at our hospital, returned for his second dose. pic.twitter.com/Yq9urGJeH1 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals (@NNUH) January 6, 2021
This week, the 86-year-old returned to the hospital to receive the second dose of the vaccine, which was administered on Wednesday.
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An intensive care nurse has said her unit is so overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients it is unable to provide usual levels of care.
There are 42 people in intensive care at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, compared to a normal capacity of 20 before the pandemic, and that number is to be quadrupled to 80 in coming weeks.
The hospital is currently treating about 200 patients with coronavirus from across the East of England including Essex and also from London, and the unit is also taking in other intensive care patients from Addenbrooke s Hospital in Cambridge.
Covid-19: Demand for Norfolk school key worker places outstrips supply
By Laurence Cawley and Laura Devlin
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image captionThree times as many pupils are seeking a place in school during this lockdown than during the first at Queen s Hill Primary
Children of key workers are entitled to attend school during the lockdown, according to government regulations. But many head teachers say they simply do not have enough places. In Norfolk, some have seen more than twice as many requests from parents compared to the first lockdown. Why has there been so much demand this time and how will schools meet it?
Rob Field of Iceni Diagnostics, Norwich.
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The Norwich-based producer of a rapid coronavirus test is in talks about it being used at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
Iceni Diagnostics, based at Norwich Research Park, has come up with a test which it says can show, in just 15 minutes, if somebody has Covid-19.
Making Covid-19 tests at Iceni Diagnostics. Picture: Si Barber
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But, in the meantime, through the Norwich Research Park s links with the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, discussions are under way about testing out the effectiveness of the tests at the Colney hospital.