Tameside hospital fights UK's first fatal outbreak of hospital-acquired Covid

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Exclusive: inquiry launched as several patients die of Covid-19 after becoming infected while being treated for other illnesses

A small district hospital where more than a third of all coronavirus deaths among inpatients in England occurred last week is battling the UK’s first known fatal outbreak of hospital-acquired Covid-19, the Guardian can reveal.

 

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What makes it a ‘small district hospital’ I wonder? Makes it sound tiny and it’s not.

. 2nd fatal hospital based outbreak-see Craigavon Area Hospital SHSCT

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