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A trust from a hospital in Worcestershire confirmed when it saw the second wave of the coronavirus begin and how many patients it has at its two sites.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust said from its figures that the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which has taken over the world in 2020, began at its Worcestershire Royal and Alexandra hospitals on September 28.
Since then, the number of people with Covid-19 seen in their hospitals has increased, with another sharp increase in positive cases who came to the hospital on October 16.
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As of that date, the Trust’s two hospitals are admitting five or six Covid-positive patients each day and, as of November 12, there are 63 Covid-19-positive patients in their two hospitals.
Of those 12 are now in UTI (intensive treatment unit) beds, with the Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester opening its ‘augmentation’ UTI unit once again, and there are also plans for Alexandra Hospital in Redditch to do the same, in should the need arise. .
Paul Brennan, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, speaking at the Trust’s monthly board of directors meeting, said: “We have identified that the second wave started arriving around September 28.
“We started seeing two to three new positive patients a day, which was offset by highs and sadly deaths.
“Then, from the 16 th October the numbers began to increase.
“We were seeing about five or six positive patients admitted. This morning [Thursday, November 12] there were 63 positive patients in the two hospitals, the highest number since May 1. “
Deaths have also started to rise with 281 deaths in which one patient had a positive Covid-19 test recorded in the first wave and through September 28. And another 23 deaths since the second wave began on September 28.
September and October have seen strong increases in positive Covid-19 cases with numbers that quadrupled month by month, in both months from 175 in August to 802 in September and 3,187 in October.
Case numbers are booming in critical areas around the county, with four of the county’s six districts now registering rates above 200 cases per 100,000 and Redditch now above 300 cases per 100,000.
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