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The number of patients admitted to hospital for alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD) surged last year, amid concerns from experts that many people turned to drink due to anxiety about the pandemic.
The liver unit at King s College Hospital in London compared admissions in June 2020 with those in June 2019. It found a 48.5 per cent increase in admissions related to alcohol abuse, with a quarter of those admitted requiring intensive care to treat the potentially deadly condition.
Doctors believe the problem could be endemic, with recent analysis from Public Health England showing the number of people drinking excessively doubled between February and March following the first Covid lockdown, matching the pattern seen at King s.
ONLY 44 new cases of Covid-19 were reported today in the Winchester district, the first day in a week with cases under 50. Yesterday the Chronicle reported nearly a fifth of all the Covid cases in the Winchester district have been reported in the last six days, figures show. The surge in Covid-19 in the Winchester district caused by the virulent new strain shows no sign of abating. Nationally 50,000 new cases have been reported for the last four days. Today s figure of new cases was 44. In the previous six days since Boxing Day they have been 104, 57, 56, 84, 90 and 119. The district s infection rate is 2,221 per 100,000 people. The national infection rate is 3,892 per 100,000.
THEY are the Hampshire heroes who have played a key role in the battle to combat coronavirus and protect the public. Health experts across the county found themselves in the front line after the virus emerged at the start of the year, plunging the UK into its biggest peacetime emergency. Now their work in trying to curb the devastating impact of Covid-19 has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours List. Dr Katrina Cathie, a consultant paediatrician at University Hospital Southampton, is made an MBE for services to paediatrics and the response to the pandemic. Dr Cathie, 40, is chair of National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network.
Man airlifted to hospital after a serious accident on Swan Street A ROAD has been closed after a serious incident occurred in Kingsclere. A serious crash on Swan Street has caused the road in both directions to close between St Mary and The funeral directors. Emergency services attended the scene and the injured male was airlifted to hospital. Eye witnesses reported hearing bangs and screaming in the area. A South Central Ambulance spokesperson told The Gazette: We received a 999 call at 13:54 with the caller reporting a collision between a pedestrian and two cars on Swan Street, Kingsclere. We sent two ambulances, a paramedic team leader in a rapid response vehicle and the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance to the incident.
THE surge in Covid-19 in the Winchester district is continuing. Today s figure of new cases reported this evening was 90; on December 26, 104, on December 27, 57, December 28, 56 and yesterday, 84. In the last five days 15 per cent of the total number of cases since last March have been reported. Yesterday the previous four days was 12 per cent of the total. Only in Stanmore are the numbers so low that it is marked green on the Government s interactive Covid map. District cases since last March is currently 2,611, with an infection rate of 1,907 per 100,000 people as of Sunday. Today’s infection rate for Winchester was unavailable. The national infection rate is 3,713 per 100,000.