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Apr 2021
Harrogate hospital goes a week without a covid death
Harrogate District Hospital has gone a week without reporting a covid death. Meanwhile, the district's seven-day covid rate has increased to 26 per 100,000 people.
Harrogate District Hospital has gone a week without reporting a death from a patient who tested positive for covid.
According to NHS England figures up to April 18, the last death recorded at the hospital was on April 11.
The death toll at the hospital since last March remains at 179.
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Meanwhile, a further eight covid cases have been confirmed in the Harrogate district according to Public Health England statistics.
It takes the total number of infections since the start of the pandemic to 7,638.
Elsewhere, the district’s seven-day covid rate has increased to 26 per 100,000 people.
The North Yorkshire average is 26 and the England rate is 24.
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