Harrogate District Hospital records another covid death

Harrogate District Hospital has recorded another death of a patient who tested positive for covid. It brings the total number of hospital deaths in the district from covid to 160.  The patient’s death was recorded yesterday, February 27.

Across the district another 15 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours. It means 7,295 people have tested positive for covid since the pandemic began.


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The 7 day average rate in Harrogate has fallen to 72.1 per 100,000 – this is compared with an England wide average of 96.4.

This weekend there were queues around the car park when a new vaccine centre opened in Knaresborough.  Depending on supply, the centre can give out 1,200 jabs in a day.

We’d like to thank everyone who has sent us tributes to their loved ones who have died of covid in the past year. We will be publishing them in the week starting March 8. If you have lost a family or friend to the virus and wish them to be remembered publicly then get in touch on contact@thestrayferret.co.uk and we can tell their story.