The number of Covid patients in North Yorkshire’s hospitals has fallen for the first time in six weeks.
There are now 109 patients in the four main hospitals serving the county – down from 131 last week. The latest figure includes six patients in Scarborough.
Richard Webb is North Yorkshire County Councils Director of Health and adult Services
After most lockdown restrictions were lifted earlier this summer, patient numbers had been climbing steadily since the end of June but did not reach levels seen during previous waves thanks to vaccinations weakening the link between infections and serious illness.
Despite this, Richard Webb said the wider health and social care sector was still currently facing “pretty exceptional” pressures from a mix of pandemic impacts and high levels of demand for non-Covid care.
“The level of demand for both hospital and primary care, as well as community health services and social care, is pretty exceptional at the moment,” he told a meeting of the North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum today.
“It is proving exceptionally challenging and everyone is doing all they can to keep services running.
“This is not on the scale that we have seen during previous waves of Covid-19 but it is still something we are keeping a very close eye on.”
North Yorkshire public health consultant, Dr Victoria Turner says despite the slowdown in the increase of COVID cases the overall infection rate remains high.


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