The latest update tells us that 34 patients being treated at Milton Keynes University Hospital have tested positive for coronavirus, with none currently being treated on ventilators.
The latest data, released by the government weekly, includes people admitted to MK Hospital who tested positive for COVID-19 in the 14 days prior to their hospital admission and those who tested positive in hospital after admission.
The data, which tells us how many patients are being treated in MKUH, tells us that as of Tuesday 14th December, there are 34 patients being cared for in MK Hospital, with none being treated on a ventilator.
This is a jump from last week which saw 26 cases in hospital.
This news comes as the Omicron variant now accounts for more than 40% of cases in Milton Keynes, the data does not tell us if any of these patients have the Omicron variant.
MK also has the 11th highest level of infection across all local authority areas in England.
Omicron is far more likely than the Delta variant to cause re-infection, and close contacts are around twice as likely to become infected themselves.
Public health officials are not yet clear whether Omicron is more or less severe than previous variants, but even with the Government’s newly announced Plan B measures, scientists predict a large rise in cases and hospitalisations.
The government bought in Plan B restrictions last week in a bid to limit the spread.
All coronavirus data is provided by the government and NHS, no further information is provided on age, gender or vaccination status.
You can read the data here.
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