Deaths and test results
FOUR (4) additional hospital deaths announced today. Two occurred on Monday and two yesterday. That brings the total death toll at the York Hospital Trust, since 1st September, to 154.
The latest ONS figures reveal that, during the week ending on 18th December, a further 3 York residents died as a result of coronavirus. This brings the total death toll since the beginning of September to 40.
Of these 40 York residents, 19 deaths occurred in hospital*, 15 in care homes, 3 at a hospice and 3 at home.
*These numbers vary from those quoted for the York Hospital Trust as the later caters for patients from a wide part of Yorkshire.
The cumulative COVID death toll among York residents has now reached 211. The highest fatality rate occurred during the week ending 1st May 2020 (29 deaths).
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY NINE (149) new positive test results were announced today.
The infection rate fell back slightly to 235.0 as a result of fewer tests being carried out on Christmas Day.
However, the rate is set to rise to at least 312.4 over the next couple of days
No major changes at neighbourhood level although these figures are also influenced by the low number of tests completed on Christmas Day
York in Tier 3
Something of a surprise that York has avoided Tier 4 restrictions given the sharply rising local infection rate
