Birmingham Women's and Children's Trust cares for two patients with Covid-19 in hospital

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

Birmingham Women's and Children's Trust was caring for two patients with coronavirus in hospital as of Tuesday, figures show.

NHS England data shows the number of people being treated in hospital with Covid-19 by 8am on March 1 was up from one on the same day the previous week.

There was one bed occupied by a patient with Covid-19 four weeks ago in Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

Across England there were 7,507 people in hospital with Covid as of March 1, with 175 of them in mechanical ventilation beds.

Nationally, the number of hospital patients with Covid-19 has increased by 24% in the last four weeks, while the number on mechanical ventilators has increased by 29%.

The figures also show that five new patients with Covid were admitted to hospital in Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust in the week to February 27. This was up from three in the previous seven days.