A further 43 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours across the Harrogate district.
The figure brings the district’s total number of confirmed cases since the start of the outbreak to 1,930.
There have been no further deaths reported in patients with covid 19 at Harrogate District Hospital, after one was confirmed on Thursday for the first time in three weeks. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 84 patients have died at the hospital after testing positive for the virus.
Meanwhile, a new testing facility has opened at the Dragon Parade car park in Harrogate this week, offering tests seven days a week.
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Though the number of infections continues to rise, health leaders in North Yorkshire have offered some reassurance about the overall picture.
Speaking on Wednesday, Amanda Bloor, accountably officer at North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group, said Harrogate District Hospital was treating 10 covid-positive in-patients, with one in intensive care. In September, the hospital confirmed it had set aside 100 beds to treat patients with the virus through the winter.
Ms Bloor added:
“We are seeing the number of inpatient admissions with covid increasing, but we are not yet at the levels of hospitalisations that we were back at the beginning and in the middle of April.
“We have currently got 116 people in hospital beds; we had in excess of 300 in early April.
“It is a relatively stable position, although we are seeing a slight upward trend in terms of those numbers.”
However, the Nightingale hospital – which has 500 beds at Harrogate Convention Centre to treat patients from across Yorkshire and the Humber – was last week put on stand-by by the government to take patients as infection numbers around the region continue to rise.
