Six more Altnagelvin COVID-19 admissions with five patients in ICU
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Six more people - four men and two women - were admitted to Altnagelvin with COVID-19 yesterday, according to the latest data from the Department of Health.
The age ranges were as follows: 20-39 (1 patient), 60-69 (3 patients) and over 80 (two patients),
At midnight on Tuesday 67 people were being treated as coronavirus inpatients across all Western Trust hospitals.
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Five (62.5%) out of eight ICU beds at Altnagelvin were being used to treat a COVID-19 patient; two ICU bed (25%) were occupied by patients with other conditions; and one (12.5%) was free.
Six ICU patients in total were being ventilated - four were COVID-19 patients.
In terms of general occupancy 10.25% of beds at Altnagelvin were ‘COVID-19 occupied’, 86.02% were ‘other occupied’ and 0.93% capacity was left in the system; 2.80% were ‘awaiting admission.’