THERE were more coronavirus patients in hospital on Christmas Day in Gwent than anywhere else in Wales. The latest hospitalisation figures show that the number of patients in hospital with suspected or confirmed coronavirus is at its highest since the start of the pandemic. Figures for the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, which covers all of Gwent, show that 33 coronavirus patients were hospitalised on Christmas Day. While the number in hospital on December 25 was 579, the highest number across Wales. Over the period of time between December 24 and December 30, there have been 619 patients in Gwent s hospitals with either suspected or confirmed coronavirus, or recovering from Covid-19.
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A senior doctor has described how staff at Wales largest hospital are facing massive numbers of Covid patients and how his colleagues are stretched to the limit .