Doncaster hospital currently has over 200 patients with Covid-19

Laurie Mott, Doncaster Council’s head of public intelligence, said there were 202 people in hospital with Covid-19 as of Wednesday, November 12. Although there had been a ‘slight fall’, Mr Morr added that the rate is ‘very high’ and has been consistently climbing from September.

Data presented to a recent Covid-19 oversight board, shows an increase in people being treated in intensive care. The figure stands at 17 and is supposed to have one-to-one nursing care.

Mr Mott also told the meeting that from those who are discharged to those who sadly died from the virus ‘stands at around 70/30’.

“An area of concern in the last few weeks is the number of people admitted to hospital who have been infected in the community or while in hospital,” Mr Mott said

“Community infection stands at about 70 per cent and it is going up – while it’s not a good thing it’s better than getting it in hospital. The number of acquired infections in hospitals has fallen over the last week.”

Doncaster NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) chair Jackie Pederson, added: “It is a very challenging situation across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw and we are all working really hard to treat those people and getting them back home as quickly and safely as possible.

“I want to highlight the difference this time where we’ve tried to keep services going so during the first wave a lot of other services were paused with elective services so that freed up a lot of capacity with beds and staff we could utilise and redeploy.

“Because we’re trying to keep other services going, that puts an enormous amount of pressure on the rest of the system.

“We are trying everything we can to manage admissions in keeping people as well as possible.

“We may be in lockdown but my message is to people to go and get their flu jab because it looks like some of this is dropping off but is really important and will help us to get through this.”

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