NHS daily bulletin reveals latest on Covid-19 victims at Northampton General Hospital

The number of Covid-19 victims at Northampton General Hospital has risen this week, according to NHS figures.

Today's daily bulletin (Saturday June 13) revealed six more NGH patients died after testing positive for coronavirus during the last three days.

That takes the sobering total there to 16 already this week and heading for the highest it's been for more than a month.

A lag in the reporting process means it can take up to four or five days — or even longer — for all the information to be collated. So data for the week ending is unlikely to be complete for the week ending June 12.

The total rose to 17 in the week ending May 29 having previously fallen from 28 in the week up to May 8 — VE Day. A week ago, the corresponding figure was 12.

Four of the fatalities revealed in today's figures all died on Thursday (June 11). Another died on Wednesday taking the toll on that day to four. That followed on Tuesday's five victims.

When the the Covid-19 pandemic was at its peak, the highest number of patients to die at NGH in one day was ten on Easter Sunday, April 12.

Three more deaths were today confirmed at Kettering General Hospital, leaving the number of known coronavirus-related victims one short of 600 in the county's two man hospitals and care homes.

Northampton and Kettering accounted for nine out of 67 hospital deaths confirmed by all NHS Trusts in England up to 5pm last night (Friday).

In all, 475 patients have died in the two main hospitals — 269 in Northampton and 206 at Kettering.

A ninth patient died under the care of Northamptonshire Health Foundation Trust, which provides mental health, community nursing, sexual health and physiotherapy services within the county and also at prisons outside. Locations are not revealed for NHFT deaths so they are not be included in our county totals.

Labs had returned 1,606 positive coronavirus tests in Northamptonshire according to latest figures collated at 9am yesterday (Friday), a rise of 12 in the previous 24 hours and 50 over seven days.

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