Adults have been encouraged to have their jabs after latest figures confirmed the majority of Covid infected patients in intensive care units are unvaccinated people in their 30s and 40s.
The last updates on hospital admissions were provided by the NHS Accountable Officer Amanda Sullivan during a meeting of Nottingham City Council's Outbreak Control Engagement Board.
The levels of hospital admissions for Covid infections, she said, have been rising steadily across Nottingham hospitals in the last few weeks.
While the number of patients dropped slightly, Ms Sullivan said the levels 'remain steady but do fluctuate'.
She added: "I reported last time that the levels of people in hospital with Covid were rising quite steadily and we are at approximately half the levels that we had in the first wave.
"That has remained a steady position over the last period.
"So we are still around that that level in the hospital.
"Whilst there have been some fluctuations we are pretty much at a steady state of admissions to hospital for people with Coronavirus.
"And we are also seeing all services are under significant increased demand not only for Covid but for non Covid reasons as well.
"And people are now coming forward with a range of different health presentations.
"We are seeing this across the ambulance services, emergency departments, GP surgeries and community services as well."
Up to 131 patients were in hospital after contracting Covid on August 10 compared to 137 people in the previous week.
Of those people, 22 patients were requiring ventilation and intensive care - that is 16 per cent of the total number of Covid hospital admissions.
There were also seven deaths registered in the week leading up to August 11 compared to 13 in the previous week.
Ms Sullivan added: "Although mercifully we're not seeing deaths in the way that we did in previous ways we are announcing a sort of steady sort of low level of people dying with Coronavirus."
Asked if there is a connection between the people who need intensive care and whether they have been vaccinated, she added: "In terms of are whether we are seeing a pattern with vaccination we most definitely are."
She also confirmed that 60 per cent of patients in hospital were completely unvaccinated and further 10 per cent have only had one jab.
Ms Sullivan went on and said that "the vast majority of people in intensive care, around 95 per cent, had no vaccines at all".
She added: "The chances of becoming seriously ill and needing to go to intensive care are very very strongly with the vaccination.
"We do know that two vaccines don't prevent you necessarily from getting it, (but it) reduces the chances of catching Coronavirus, it doesn't completely remove the chances, but it has got a really strong association with how seriously unwell you would become."
As a consequence, she said that the age profile has changed as the majority of the elderly population already had both vaccines.
She added: "We are seeing that the older profile are generally protected against Coronavirus now because they have been made aware of it.
"It is a very different profile now with the majority of patients being in their 30s and 40s."
Nottingham City Councillor Sally Longford added: "Last year it was believed to be an illness of the elderly.
"If it is no longer an illness of the elderly, those young people need to be made aware as soon as possible, so that we reduce the impact.
"We hear lots of people talking about great grandmas, and great grandpas - but now we are talking about mum and dad and we really need to try and protect our families from that tragic loss."
Notts: To read all the biggest and best stories first sign up to read our newsletters here.
