ONLY one Covid patient is now being treated at York and Scarborough hospitals combined - the lowest since the start of the pandemic in March last year - but that patient is in intensive care.
The York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - which was treating 242 Covid patients at the height of the crisis on January 26 - revealed the latest latest figures this morning.
A spokeswoman said this afternoon: "We never got this low in numbers last year so this is positive news."
She said the trust - which had seven Covid wards at York Hospital alone at the height of the pandemic in January - had retained one Covid ward at York Hospital for any Covid positive patients who might need inpatient care in the Trust.
The trust said a total of 2,162 Covid patients had been discharged since the start of the pandemic in March last year.
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