More than one in ten COVID-19 patients in 314 UK hospitals caught the infection in hospital during the first pandemic wave say researchers conducting the world's largest study of severe COVID-19.
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Of every 10 Covid-19 patients in hospital at least one and sometimes more caught the infection inside the health facility during the first wave of the pandemic in the UK, reveals a study published in The Lancet.The study found that at least .
The proportion of Covid-19 patients infected in hospitals also rose to between 16 per cent and 20 per cent in mid-May 2020, long after the peak of admissions in the first wave.