The number of patients in Bristol hospitals with coronavirus has tripled in a week. The news comes as experts fear a drop in testing along with inadequate surveillance of new immune-evasive subvariants, could lead to a "devastating" spike in cases this winter.
Last week, there were 36 people in hospitals with coronavirus according to previous data supplied by Bristol City Council. There are currently 108 patients in hospitals in the Bristol region with COVID-19 and five patients in intensive care with the virus as of September 28. In Bristol, 62 per cent of people over 16 have had a booster or third dose.
The most recent, complete Government data shows that Covid cases have risen by 90 per cent in the City of Bristol local authority. 299 new cases were reported on September 24. In North Somerset, new positive cases were at 218 (a rise of 25 per cent) and 221 new cases (a rise of 69 per cent) in South Gloucestershire for the same time period.
