How many patients are in Midlands hospitals with Covid-19?

This page is regularly updated with how Midlands hospitals are coping during the Coronavirus pandemic.

We also update articles on the current infection rate in the Midlands and how the vaccination roll out is going.

• This is the rate at which hospital beds in the Midlands have been occupied by Covid patients over the course of the pandemic

The graph tracks the numbers over the course of the whole pandemic.

It does not show the absolute numbers of patients, but the number of patients per 100,000 people served by our hospitals.

It allows us to fairly illustrate how busy Midlands hospitals are compared to hospitals across the rest of the UK.

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This graph shows the number of daily admissions of patients with Covid-19 to Midlands hospitals across the course of the whole pandemic.

This includes existing patients who then test positive while in hospital.

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