The amount of covid patients in North Yorkshire hospitals has more than doubled in the last week — but the number in Harrogate hospital has fallen to just two.
A covid press briefing today heard 47 people are being treated in hospitals in the county, up from 22 seven days ago, with six people in intensive care.
Just two are in Harrogate District Hospital, compared with four last week.
Fifteen patients are in York Hospital and 30 are in South Tees.
Senior health managers say hospitalisations around the county remain down on the numbers seen earlier this year.
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Amanda Bloor, NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group’s accountable officer told North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum that in January more than 400 coronavirus patients were in hospital in the region.
She said:
“The number of positive cases in North Yorkshire and York is rising.
“However, the number of patients in hospital with covid has remained relatively low at 47.
“If we compare previous months, the last time that the infection rates across North Yorkshire and York was at 300 per 100,000 population was in late January of this year and at the same point in time there were over 400 patients in hospital beds in North Yorkshire, so you can see the difference.
“This does give us confidence that the vaccination program is having the anticipated impact around reducing the risk of death and reducing serious illness, especially where those people have received both doses of the vaccine.”
Ms Bloor encouraged anyone who has not yet received a dose of the coronavirus vaccine to get one.
She added that a pop-up vaccination centre would be open in Scarborough’s Brunswick Shopping Centre on Saturday between 9am and 3pm.
North Yorkshire’s coronavirus rate has risen to 259 infections per 100,000 people with 1,600 new cases in the last week.
The Harrogate district’s figure of 321 is the highest in the county.
