Hospitals in mid and south Essex are only caring for four coronavirus patients - the lowest number since Septmeber.
The latest NHS data shows the figure had dropped as low as two patients last weekend before rising to four on Tuesday.
The Mid and South Essex Hospitals Trust, which manages Basildon, Southend and Broomfield hospitals, was caring for more than 900 Covid patients during the peak of the second wave of the pandemic back in January.
But it is now caring for just a handful of people according to the latest data, with only one of them on a mechanical ventilator.