The number of people in Wirral’s hospitals with covid has fallen for the first time in weeks after a worrying surge.
On March 29, the most recent day for which we have figures, there were 66 coronavirus patients in the borough’s hospitals. That is down on last week, when there were 70 covid patients.
It is the first fall since March 1, when the figure was way down at 15. Since then, major week-on-week increases have seen the pressure increas on Wirral’s hospitals caused by the covid surge.
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This rise in hospitalisations has followed the pattern of dramatically rising case numbers. In the week up to February 26, Wirral’s infection rate was 258 per 100,000. But since then, it has shot up.
In the week up to March 27, the rate was 997 per 100,000. But there is good news here as well.
During parts of March, cases rose by 50% or even 60% week-on-week. But the latest numbers show the rate of increase is much slower at 6%.
Breaking the numbers down to a more local level, New Brighton had more cases than any other part of Wirral in the week up to March 25. The seaside town had 191 cases, with Hoylake and Meols (188) and Heswall (188) the next most infected areas.
Oxton had the smallest number of cases in the borough, with 118, while Prenton (122) and Birkenhead and Tranmere (122) had fewer cases than most parts of Wirral.
Covid-19 cases in every Wirral ward:
- New Brighton 191
- Hoylake and Meols 188
- Heswall 188
- Clatterbridge 175
- Bebington 172
- Eastham 168
- West Kirby and Thurstaston 163
- Upton 153
- Wallasey 152
- Bromborough 152
- Liscard 147
- Seacombe 146
- Pensby and Thingwall 145
- Rock Ferry 143
- Greasby, Frankby and Irby 140
- Leasowe and Moreton East 140
- Claughton 129
- Moreton West and Saughall Massie 125
- Bidston and St James 124
- Birkenhead and Tranmere 122
- Prenton 122
- Oxton 118
