VIDEO: Dramatic rise this week
The number of people in hospital across Devon following a positive covid-19 test has risen by more than 50 per cent in a week.
As of Tuesday 3 November, the most recent date the information is available for, 156 people were in Devon’s hospitals with the disease compared with 99 the previous week.
In the latest figures, 38 people are in Torbay Hospital with covid (up from 33), 38 in Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (23), 16 in North Devon District Hospital (11), and 64 in Derriford Hospital in Plymouth (32). Sixteen patients are in mechanical ventilation beds.
Not every patient would necessarily have been admitted to hospital due to covid-19, with a small number of patients either contracting the virus in hospital, or being admitted for unrelated reasons but subsequently testing positive in routine tests.
In the last seven days, seven people have died in hospitals in Devon following a positive test: four in Plymouth and three in Torbay.
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