FOUR people have been admitted to Dorset hospitals with Covid-19 in the course of one week.
Latest figures from NHS England show that two people were admitted to University Hospitals Dorset Trust on June 10, they were the only people admitted between June 6 and June 13.
Meanwhile two people were also admitted to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester in the same week, one person was admitted on June 8 and one on June 13.
No patients were admitted to the Dorset Healthcare Trust in Dorchester in the same one-week period.
As of June 15, there were three people occupying a hospital bed with the virus in the whole county.
One patient is at University Hospitals Dorset Trust and two people are at the Dorset County Hospital.
Across England, 1,030 people were occupying a hospital bed with coronavirus, 22 in the south west.
Of people needing mechanical ventilation, there were 187 patients across England, two in the south west with one person in Dorset at the Dorset County Hospital.
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