Managers at Yorkshire’s biggest hospital trust say one ward a day had to be converted for Covid patients during the height of the Omicron wave.
But the vaccination programme and more immunity among people helped Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust avoid huge numbers of patients in critical care during the early weeks of January.
The Omicron Covid-19 wave causing rapid rates of infection in December and January, which led to increased hospitalisations and health chiefs struggling to keep up.
