People from five areas of Liverpool have been hospitalised with Covid at significantly higher rates than the city as a whole, a council report warns.
A report on coronavirus for the health and wellbeing board indicates people in the city’s poorest wards are more than twice as likely to end up in hospital than those in the wealthiest.
It also showed a widening gulf in life expectancy within the city as more people in deprived areas die from the disease.
The report said hospitalisations in Liverpool were continuing to come down after a peak in late January.
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It said: “The epidemic curve below shows the number of admissions in LUHT peaked on 26th January 2021 when there were 569 patients with COVID-19 in hospital beds and have been steadily declining since then.”
It continued :”When compared to the Liverpool average, five Liverpool wards have a significantly higher rate of admission: these wards were Kirkdale, Norris Green, Everton, Fazakerley and Croxteth.
“People from the most deprived parts of the city were 2.1 times more likely to be admitted to hospital with a COVID-19 diagnosis compared to those living in the least deprived areas.”
The pattern for hospitalisations was mimicked in the changes in life expectancy across the city, with poorer areas seeing their life expectancy decline more than richer ones.
Liverpool as a whole also moved further behind the English average life expectancy.
The age the average person born in the city can expect to live to is now 76.7, a drop of 2.4 years and a level not seen since 2006.
The gap between life expectancy in Liverpool and England as a whole has also widened, with the city now 3.1 years behind the national average.
