And no-one is at NHS Nightingale Exeter
The number of patients in Devon’s hospitals following a positive covid test has fallen to levels not seen since October, and have more than halved in a week.
As of Tuesday 2 March, 43 patients were in hospital in the county having tested positive, down on the 89 as of the previous week.
There are no patients at all in the NSH Nightingale Exeter– the final patients were discharged on 26 February, and both the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and Derriford Hospital both are at the lowest figure since 19 October.
Twelve covid patients were at the RD&E (down from 22 on 23 Feb), none at the Nightingale (down from 17), 10 at Torbay Hospital (down from 16), 18 in Derriford Hospital in Plymouth (down from 32), 2 at North Devon District Hospital (unchanged), and one in Devon Partnership NHS Trust units (up from zero).
Patients in mechanical ventilation beds is down too, with eight in Derriford, five in Cornwall, two in Exeter, and one in North Devon.
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