Which parts of Yorkshire have the most people in hospital with coronavirus and how does it compare to August?

Official stats from NHS England for Tuesday show there were 249 people in hospital with Covid-19 in Sheffield hospitals, compared with just 18 on 1 August.

That represents nearly 14 times as many people being treated for the disease each day than in the summer.

In Leeds, hospitalisations have risen from just three on 1 August to 236 on 27 October.

Areas like Bradford and Calderdale, which were some of the first to go into local lockdown, have had smaller rises. Bradford has gone from 12 hospitalisations to 109, while Calderdale and Huddersfield has gone from five to 86.

The number of Covid-19 patients in South Yorkshire hospitals is nearly double the peak of the first wave of the virus, according to Sheffield City Region mayor Dan Jarvis.

Mr Jarvis said: “Over recent weeks there has been a steady rise in the number of patients admitted to hospitals across South Yorkshire who have tested positive for Covid-19.

“There are now 700 people in hospital with the virus, approaching double the peak of 414 during the first wave of the pandemic in the spring.”

Mr Jarvis, who is also Labour MP for Barnsley Central, said planning for a second wave meant hospitals are “currently coping” but he added: “The situation remains precarious and if Covid cases continue to rise and hospitalisations increase, we risk our hospitals and the people who work in them being overwhelmed."

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