Ten deaths this week as covid numbers rise
COVID inpatient numbers at Rotherham Hospital have risen again this week — and ten people have died.
A spokesperson for The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, said as of Wednesday morning, 59 inpatients were in hospital who had tested positive for coronavirus — up five from last week — and one of whom was in critical care.
The hospital has seen ten new Covid-19 deaths within the past week, taking the total number to 611 since the start of the pandemic.
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The borough’s infection rate has also increased and as of August 12, was at 396.3 per 100,000 people — up on the previous week’s figure of 377.
Rotherham also remains above the UK national average of 294.7.