TEN people have been admitted to Dorset hospitals with Covid-19 in the course of one week.
Latest figures from NHS England show that nine people were admitted to University Hospitals Dorset Trust between June 20 and June 27.
Meanwhile, one person was also admitted to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester in the same week - the person was admitted on June 21.
No patients were admitted to the Dorset Healthcare Trust during the same one-week period.
As of June 29, there were six people occupying a hospital bed with the virus in University Hospitals Dorset.
Three patients were at University Hospitals Dorset Trust and there were no patients with Covid at the Dorset County Hospital.
Across England, 1,445 people were occupying a hospital bed with coronavirus - up from 1,030 last week - and 76 in the south west.
Of people needing mechanical ventilation, there were 259 patients across England, seven in the south west and no one with coronavirus in Dorset required a ventilator.
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