Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Trust cares for 52 Covid-19 patients in hospital

By Andrew Dowdeswell, Data Reporter
Published 8th Apr 2022, 10:32 BST
Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.
Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Trust was caring for 52 coronavirus patients in hospital as of Tuesday, figures show.

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Trust was caring for 52 coronavirus patients in hospital as of Tuesday, figures show.

NHS England data shows the number of people being treated in hospital for Covid-19 by 8am on April 5 was in line with the same day the previous week.

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The number of beds at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust occupied by people who tested positive for Covid-19 increased by 53% in the last four weeks – 28 days ago, there were 34.

Across England there were 16,552 people in hospital with Covid as of April 5, with 319 of them in mechanical ventilation beds – though none were at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Trust.

The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalised nationally has increased by 80% in the last four weeks, while the number on mechanical ventilators has increased by 32%.

The figures also show that 66 new Covid patients were admitted to hospital in Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Trust in the week to April 3. This was up from 61 in the previous seven days.