Coronavirus: Dozens of East Sussex patients now recovered

East Sussex Healthcare Trust said by last week, 65 patients had been discharged from its hospitals since the pandemic began.

The trust runs Eastbourne District General Hospital, Bexhill Hospital, and Conquest Hospital in St Leonards.

No other Sussex hospital trusts have yet provided figures on the number of coronavirus patients who have recovered.

The Argus asked for recovery figures from Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust two weeks ago.

A spokeswoman originally told us to contact the Department of Health and Social Care for the statistics.

More than 60 coronavirus patients have recovered in East Sussex

When The Argus contacted the Department for Health and Social Care it was told individual trusts should decide whether they wanted to release recovery figures.

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust and Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust were contacted by The Argus last week requesting figures on the number of recoveries.

Neither has yet provided the statistics.

The new figures came as three more coronavirus patient deaths were reported by Sussex hospitals yesterday.

All three were reported by Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust, which manages Crawley Hospital and Horsham Hospital.

They brought the trust’s death toll up to 187.

Meanwhile the death toll Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust remained at 96, unchanged from the day before. East Sussex Healthcare Trust also reported a total 57 deaths, again unchanged. The death toll remained at 70 for West Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust.

Three deaths were reported by Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust yesterday, which runs Crawley Hospital among others

And the Sussex Community NHS Trust reported no new deaths, its death toll remaining at 13.

Nationally the number of deaths in hospitals increased to 21,749 – up by 653 from the day before.

Thousands across the UK held a minute’s silence yesterday in honour of key workers killed by the coronavirus. Mourners paused for a minute in tribute to the sacrifice made by those in roles ranging from doctors and nurses to carers, cleaners, porters and bus drivers during the pandemic.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who returned to work this week after recovering from Covid-19, joined the countrywide commemoration, as did Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

More than 100 frontline NHS and care workers are confirmed to have died during the pandemic.

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