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.