The number of Covid-19 patients at Southport Hospital has risen considerably in the space of two weeks.
Sefton's infection rate is surging, with cases more than doubling in the fortnight to July 1 - giving the borough an infection rate of 425 per 100,000 people.
Just two weeks prior to this, on June 17, its rate was 178 per 100,000 people.
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The vast majority of coronavirus cases in the borough are the Delta variant, according to data from a British genetics research institute.
The Sanger Institute reports at least 98.4% of cases in the borough were the B.1.617.2, in the two weeks leading to June 26.
Nine patients were in Southport Hospital with coronavirus on June 29 - the most recent data available.
At the time the data was recorded, two of these people were on ventilation.
Two weeks prior to this, there was one Covid patient in the hospital, meaning there has been a jump of 900% - albeit from a low base.
At the peak of admissions in January, 157 patients at Southport Hospital were infected with the virus. Around the same time, a high point of 14 patients being treated on ventilation beds was also reached.
There were three coronavirus-related deaths at Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust in the month of June.
The deaths, occurring on June 2 and two on June 11 respectively, are the first recorded since April 9.
The NHS England figures, updated daily, refer to people who died and had “either tested positive for Covid-19 or where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate”.
Hospital deaths linked to Covid-19 often take days to be confirmed and included in the localised data for each hospital trust.
