Altnagelvin COVID-19 occupancy falls to just 0.30%

COVID-19 bed occupancy at Altnagelvin has fallen to just 0.30 per cent and no-one has been admitted to the hospital with SARS-CoV-2 for a week.
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Information released by the Department of Health on Tuesday shows that there have been no new admissions to Altnagelvin since May 25 - a week ago.

At midnight on Monday eight people were being treated as coronavirus inpatients across all Western Trust hospitals.

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No ICU beds at Altnagelvin were being used to treat a COVID-19 patient; nine of nine ICU beds (100%) were occupied by patients with other conditions and none were free.

Seven ICU patients in total were being ventilated - all were non-COVID-19 patients.

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In terms of general occupancy just 0.30% of beds at Altnagelvin were ‘COVID-19 occupied’, 91.94% were ‘other occupied’ and there was 2.69% capacity left in the hospital system; 5.07% were ‘awaiting admission.’

There have been no further deaths of patients with COVID-19 in Derry/Strabane. The last death here occurred on April 21. The Department of Health figures show 136 people have died with COVID-19 in Derry/Strabane since the pandemic began.