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Jan 2022
Last Updated: 06/01/2022
Harrogate hospital reports another covid death
Harrogate District Hospital has reported another deaths from a patient who tested positive for coronavirus. It takes the death toll at the hospital since March 2020 to 204.
Harrogate District Hospital, Lancaster Park Road.
Harrogate District Hospital has recorded another death from a patient who tested positive for covid.
According to NHS England data, the death was reported on January 5.
It means the death toll at the hospital from covid since March 2020 stands at 204.
Latest available figures show a total of 23 patients who tested positive for covid are currently being treated at Harrogate District Hospital.
The figure is almost three times as high it was mid-December when the Omicron variant was first detected in the district.
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Meanwhile, the Harrogate district’s covid rate continues to climb after another 347 infections were reported today.
Latest figures show that the district’s seven-day covid average stands at 1,507 per 100,000 people — a record high.
But it remains below both the county average, which stands at 1,623, and the England rate of 1,799.
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