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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Thomas George

Further 26 people discharged from Fairfield after recovering from Covid-19

Another 26 people have been discharged from Fairfield Hospital after recovering from coronavirus.

Bury & Rochdale Care Organisation, which runs the hospital, shared the news on Monday morning.

It takes the total number of people to have been deemed well enough to return home to 136.

Last Wednesday, Pennine Acute Trust said a total of 110 people who had tested positive for coronavirus had been discharged from the hospital, in Bury, since the pandemic began.

The trust is yet to reveal the number of people who have died from coronavirus at the hospital.

As of May 4, 352 deaths have been recorded at Pennine Acute Trust's hospitals, according to NHS England's figures.

As well as Fairfield, Pennine Acute Trust also runs the Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Infirmary, and Salford Royal Hospital, which records its figures separately.

Across the UK, more than 28,000 people have died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community after contracting coronavirus.

A total of 549 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Bury so far, a rise of more than 100 since last week.

However, the sudden rise could be linked to an increase in the number of tests being carried out as part of the government's testing regime.

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