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Only one covid patient in Devon's hospitals

Friday, 4 June 2021 12:59

By Daniel Clark, local democracy reporter

They're at the RD&E

Just one patient is in hospital in Devon following a positive covid test.

Latest figures show that the patient was admitted in Exeter on 28 May.

Devon's other three hospitals are free of covid patients - and North Devon and Torbay are approaching two months without any, and Plymouth nearly two weeks. 

There have been no patients in hospital in North Devon since 3 April, while Torbay Hospital has been free of patients since 13 April.

Derriford Hospital has had no patients since May 21, while the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital has just one patient, admitted on May 28. On May 25, 26 and 27, the RDE was also free of Covid-19 patients, the first time that Devon’s hospital had no patients since September 8.

There are no patients in hospitals in Devon in a mechanical ventilation bed.
 

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