Eight more coronavirus patients die in hospitals in the Anglia region

Collage for NHS deaths in the Anglia region
More than 4,100 patients have died with coronavirus in hospitals in the Anglia region since the start of the pandemic. Credit: PA Images

The NHS has reported that a further eight patients have died with Covid-19 in hospitals in the Anglia region.

On Tuesday, the NHS reported that a further six patients had died in hospitals in the Anglia region following 13 deaths announced over the weekend.

The total number of patients dying in the hospitals in the Anglia region is 4,114 and the total number of deaths in all settings, including care home, hospices and in the community as well as in hospitals is 5,940.

The total figure includes people who have died without a positive test for Covid-19 but where the condition was mentioned on death certificates.

The hospitals where patients have died in the past few days are the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Southend Hospital and Northampton General.

The NHS also included in Wednesday's figures, three patient deaths at Kettering Hospital in Northamptonshire which happened in May.

Members of the military operate a walk-in mobile Covid-19 testing centre in Leicester. Credit: Joe Giddens/PA Wire/PA Images

Some parts of the Anglia region are much more badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic than others.

Five places in the region were among the twenty in England with the highest number of new Covid-19 cases seen last week - Peterborough, Luton, Northampton, Kettering and Braintree.

The Press Association has analysed figures from Public Health England for the week ending 11th July and produced tables to show the number of new cases per 100,000 population in each area.

These were the highest figures in the Anglia region:

  • Peterborough - 32 cases per 100,000 (up from 14 the previous week)

  • Luton - 23 cases per 100,000 (up from 16 the previous week)

  • Northampton - 21 cases per 100,000 (up from 19 the previous week)

  • Kettering - 21 cases per 100,000 (up from 16 the previous week)

  • Braintree - 20 cases per 100,000 (up from 3 the previous week)

  • East Northamptonshire - 15 cases per 100,000 (up from 10 the previous week)

  • Harborough - 13 cases per 100,000 (down from 15 the previous week)

  • St Albans - 12 cases per 100,000 (down from 15 the previous week)

The figures in the Anglia region are still well below the level of coronavirus cases being seen in Leicester, which was forced into a local lockdown.

Leicester had 118 new cases per 100,000 in the week to 11th July compared to 115 cases the week before.

However many parts of the Anglia region saw no new Covid-19 cases in the week to 11th July and these include: Stevenage, East Cambridgeshire, Mid Suffolk, Uttlesford in Essex, Great Yarmouth and Babergh in Suffolk.

The Braintree area of Essex has seen a spike in coronavirus cases in the past week. Credit: Google

There has been particular concern about the rise in the number of positive coronavirus tests in the Braintree area of Essex but the county's Director of Public Health has sought to reassure local residents.

The area recorded 35 new coronavirus cases in the week to 13th July compared to six in the previous seven days.

Dr Mike Gogarty, Director of Public Health for Essex said: "I would like to reassure residents in Braintree and throughout the county, that the increase in covid-19 positive cases in Braintree is nothing to be concerned about.

"As we move into the next phase of the pandemic, and progress with the Test & Trace programme we will see spikes in cases in particular locations."

The map shows the number of people with coronavirus who have died in each county in the Anglia region. Credit: Data from Office of National Statistics, the NHS and the Care Quality Commission

Hospitals or NHS Trusts in the Anglia region with more than 100 coronavirus deaths

Figures from NHS England to 5pm on Tuesday 14 July 2020 released on Wednesday

  • 369 - West Hertfordshire NHS Trust including Watford General (unchanged since yesterday)

  • 351 - East Suffolk & North Essex (unchanged) which includes hospitals in Aldeburgh, Colchester, Felixstowe and Ipswich

  • 305 - Basildon Hospital (unchanged)

  • 301 - Northampton General Hospital (up 1)

  • 282 - Luton & Dunstable Hospital (unchanged)

  • 246 - Southend Hospital (up 1)

  • 235 - NW Anglia, Peterborough & Hinchingbrooke (unchanged)

  • 219 - Bedford Hospital (unchanged)

  • 217 - Kettering General Hospital (up 3)

  • 201 - Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow (unchanged)

  • 196 - Mid Essex, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford (up 1)

  • 165 - East & North Herts Trust including the Lister Hospital, Stevenage (up 1)

  • 148 - Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn (unchanged)

  • 124 - Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge (unchanged)

  • 123 - Norfolk & Norwich Hospital (unchanged)

  • 117 - James Paget Hospital, Gorleston (unchanged)

  • 104 - Milton Keynes Hospital (unchanged)

  • 189 - Deaths in hospitals in the East of England attributed to Covid-19 on the death certificate but without a positive test (an increase of 1 since yesterday)

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