A “significant proportion” of Covid patients at the NHS Trust which cared for Captain Sir Tom Moore caught the virus while receiving treatment for other illnesses.
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust released a board report this week detailing their fight against the “second surge” of coronavirus.
It shows that 13 per cent of positive tests last month came at least five days after patients were admitted to hospital. The report states: “The highly transmissible nature of the circulating mutant virus and the inability to isolate patients in single rooms combined with infections in staff and asymptomatic carriage resulted in high numbers of nosocomial [acquired in hospital] infections.” It also emerged that “a number” of patients
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