Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust cares for four patients with Covid-19 in hospital

Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust was caring for four patients with coronavirus in hospital as of Sunday, figures show.

NHS England data shows the number of people being treated in hospital with Covid-19 by 8am on October 15 was in line with the same day the previous week.

Across England there were 4,173 people in hospital with Covid as of October 15.

Nationally, the number of hospital patients with Covid-19 has increased by 37% in the last four weeks.

The figures also show that no new patients with Covid were admitted to hospital in Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust in the week to October 13.