Death toll
A FURTHER two patients with coronavirus have died at York and Scarborough Hospitals. Their deaths take the total number of Covid-19-related fatalities for the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to 166.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in York has reached 395, an increase of two from yesterday. It gives York an infection rate of 0.19%.
Still no coronasvirus test results from Poppleton
The authorities still haven’t revealed how many of the tests carried out at their Poppleton centre have proved to be positive.
The national figures are being revealed each day. Yesterday 97,029 people were tested of whom 4649 (5%) had positive results.
Earlier in the week (5th May) North Yorkshire officials said that 4580 tests had been completed at Poppleton. They declined to reveal how many had proved to be positive.
If local results are in line with the national picture, then around 200 local people may have the virus.
Deaths
There have now been 95 deaths at York Hospital from coronavirus and 62 at Scarborough, making a total of 157 at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust centres.
Death toll reaches 150 in York & Scarborough
HE number of people with coronavirus that have died at hospitals within the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has reached 150
The latest figures show that there are 348 confirmed cases in York, and 1,073 in North Yorkshire.
