An estimated one in every 22 people in Bristol and the surrounding area have Covid-19 right now, according to the latest figures from health chiefs in the city. That equates to more than 21,000 people in Bristol alone who have caught the virus this week, with thousands more in North Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
The latest figures are estimates from the Public Health chiefs at Bristol City Council, because mass testing of the population has ended. And there are currently 132 Covid-19 patients occupying hospital beds in the city - but the good news is that only three of them, as of Tuesday this week, were in intensive care with the virus.
The number of people in hospital with Covid was almost 200 in late March and early April this year, but dropped to around 20 by the early summer, before rising this month back up to more than 160 as a new wave of Covid-19 swept through the country. In the past couple of weeks, the number of people in hospital with the virus has declined slightly, but is still high, health chiefs said.
