Harrogate District Hospital has today reported its first coronavirus death in over three weeks.
It is the first covid death at the hospital since September 29 and only the second since July.
It takes the total number of coronavirus deaths at the hospital since the start of the pandemic to 84, according to NHS England figures.
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Yesterday Amanda Bloor, accountable officer at North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group, said the hospital had 10 covid patients, with one in intensive care.
Ms Bloor added there were 116 coronavirus patients in hospitals across the county, which was well below the level in the early days of the pandemic in spring.
She said:
“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.”
Harrogate District Hospital set aside 100 beds for covid patients in preparation for the second wave.
Hospital bosses said last month that they were more confident of coping this time.
