A doctor at James Cook University Hospital, which serves many Yorkshire Coast patients, says they still have four Covid wards set up.
COVID infection rates across North Yorkshire have dropped this week but they remain high and while there has been a slight drop in the number of Hospital cases of COVID in the region the number of people requiring intensive care has increased.
Dr Uwe Franke is an intensive care consultant at the James Cook Hospital he says they still have four wards set aside for COVID patients:
Dr Franke adds that almost all the cases are now delta variant and most hospital patients are those who are not fully vaccinated:
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