As of Tuesday (January 19) there were 233 Covid-19 patients being treated at the London Road hospital.
At a meeting of Croydon Council’s health and wellbeing board on Wednesday, trust chairman Michael Bell said that the number of patients increased dramatically in December.
He said: “Those numbers have stabilised over the past day, we are fluctuating between 220 and 250 a day. 20 to 30 new arrivals every day, that is giving us a fairly stable number of patients.
“We are anticipating they will stay broadly stable for up to five weeks, we are not expecting a significant drop in inpatients before the middle of February.”