Health Chief Alistair Hill said Covid-19 deaths are at their highest in Brighton even as cases start to fall DEATHS from Covid-19 are currently at their highest in Brighton and Hove and are likely to remain high over the next few weeks. The news came as the city’s director of public health Alistair Hill said the number of cases, dated from a positive test, is coming down across the city. But the lag from cases to deaths means it will still be some time before they also start to fall. Data presented to Brighton and Hove City Councils Health and Wellbeing Board on Tuesday 26 January, showed cases peaked from late March to early May, and again from mid-December to 15 January.
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THE minor injuries unit at a hospital in Crowborough will close for up to six weeks and staff redeployed to fight against Covid-19. The unit at Crowborough War Memorial Hospital will temporarily close from 8pm on Sunday, 24 January for 4-6 weeks. During this time, patients seeking help with minor injuries are encouraged to call NHS 111 first. Patients can also attend the Minor Injury Unit at Uckfield Community Hospital instead, which is open from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week. It comes after the Royal Sussex County Hospital ran out of critical care beds amid a surge in Covid patients.
Figures cover Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust and other health trusts in our area HOSPITALS across Sussex are caring for more coronavirus patients than during the peak of the first wave of Covid-19, figures reveal. As of January 12, all health trusts in our area were treating more patients than at the height of the pandemic in April. One trust had five times as many patients - with full figures available below. Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned there was a “very substantial” risk of intensive care units being overwhelmed by the current wave of Covid-19 cases, as the number of patients in hospital with the virus reached a record high nationally.