AFTER being in lockdown since the start of the year, recent weeks have seen lockdown easing bring back a limited number of our freedoms. Dorset s toughest phase of the pandemic to date was in January when case numbers rocketed, hospitals were under immense pressure and many families lost loved ones. Now, just over a week from the next easing of restrictions, the situation with Covid across the county continues to head in the right direction in terms of case numbers, hospitalisations, deaths, vaccinations and test positivity. Public Health Dorset has reported that seven-day rolling case rates in both the BCP Council and Dorset Councila areas, 17.2 cases per 100,000 and 28.5 cases per 100,000, have fallen.
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MORE than 2,200 patients who had Covid-19 have now been discharged from the University Hospitals Dorset Trust since the start of the pandemic. The trust, which looks after the Royal Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch hospitals, said it currently has just two patients with Covid-19 and is focussing on tackling the waiting list for elective procedures. Chief medical officer, Dr Alyson O’Donnell said: “As our hospitals and staff recover from the large number of Covid patients we had earlier in the year, with over 400 at one time in January, we are now focusing on tackling the large waiting lists we have for elective procedures that had to be put on hold.