One in six Covid patients in England's hospitals caught the disease while they were being treated for other conditions, it has been reported.
The figures - from 'internal Health Service statistics' - are said to represent more than 25,000 patients who have been infected with coronavirus while in hospital over the last five months.
In January, 5,684 Covid-positive in-patients out of 44,315 were infected after being admitted for other conditions, Daily Mail reports.
An intensive care consultant based in the Midlands was said to have taken a 'snapshot' of all the patients in his unit on a single day last month, which showed that 40 per cent had been infected in hospital.