UK hospitals recorded 157 coronavirus deaths today in a preliminary toll – an increase of just eight from the week before. The figure, which is usually lower on Sunday and Monday due to weekend reporting lags, suggests the rate of deaths may be starting to flatten out. Two Sundays ago the figure was at 167 … Read more
Nightingale hospitals are treating fewer than 30 patients and only one of the seven facilities across England is open – despite the recent rise in Covid hospital admissions Nightingale in Manchester caring for few dozen patients who now test negative Nightingales in Sunderland and Harrogate were asked to be ready for patients On Friday there … Read more
The number of coronavirus patients being treated in hospitals in Liverpool fell by 15 per cent in the week before the second national lockdown, according to official NHS data that further calls into question whether the autumn shutdown was justified. Number 10 caved into pressure and hit the lockdown panic button in England earlier this … Read more
Lockdown-free Sweden is now seeing its hospitals fill with coronavirus patients at a faster rate than any other country in Europe. The number of people in Swedish hospitals with the virus is now doubling every eight days, according to data from the European Centre of Disease Control, with 2,866 people currently in intensive care. That … Read more
People admitted to NHS hospitals who have recently returned from Denmark will be treated in ‘strict’ quarantine due to fears about a mutated version of coronavirus caught from mink. Government guidance issued today also says people who test positive for Covid-19 within a fortnight of arriving from the Scandinavian nation must be isolated and sent to … Read more
UK records 151 new Covid deaths in hospitals – just 14 more than last Sunday – taking the total death toll to 49,039 Health bosses announce 151 have died in hospital from Covid-19 in daily figures England reported 122 deaths at the end of its first weekend of second lockdown Wales has 744 new infections, … Read more
Health chiefs are ramping up preparations to roll out a coronavirus vaccine to the nation’s most vulnerable people within three weeks, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Jon Findlay, head of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, is understood to have told a meeting last week of his executives and senior managers from other … Read more
Most of Matt Hancock‘s Nightingale hospitals may never fully open because there are not enough NHS workers to staff them, it has been claimed. An analysis by the Sunday Times also shows that each patient admitted to the massive hospitals has so far cost £1million to treat. Seven venues including London‘s Excel Centre were converted into … Read more
Thousands of Britons died of Covid-19 after catching it in hospital – as experts warn the virus is now being spread by NHS staff, a Mail on Sunday investigation has found. During the first wave of the pandemic, patients who went into hospital to be treated for conditions unrelated to Covid were infected while on … Read more
All hospitals in Greater Manchester will suspend non-urgent surgery and appointments from Monday, officials have said, in response to surging numbers of Covid-19 patients. Those requiring treatment for cancer, urgent and specialist work are unaffected. But people waiting for so-called non-urgent operations, such as hip replacements, will have them rescheduled. The Greater Manchester Health and … Read more