LATEST data shows St Mary's Hospital hasn't had any Covid patients on a mechanically ventilated bed for ten weeks.

The last patient recorded on a ventilator was on April 30.

Ten weeks on, the beds haven't been used by Covid patients, government data shows.

The latest data runs up until July 6. The data has a lag and is sometimes backdated.

It also shows there has been a total of 746 Covid patients in St Mary's since the pandemic began, but this figure hasn't changed since the very end of May.

In recent weeks, there have been no Covid patients, with people testing positive either asymptomatic or managing their symptoms without needing to be admitted to the hospital.

Isle of Wight County Press:

Graph shows admissions to St Mary's Hospital

The hospital will still keep some regulations in place once England moves past the so-called Freedom Day on Monday, July 19.

It means visitor numbers will still be limited.

IW NHS Trust chief executive Maggie Oldham explained recently: "This risk around Covid has not gone away and we have to keep our guard up.

"We have done so well on the Island in the way we have kept safe the most vulnerable members of our community, the way we have been able to protect our staff and to continue to work.

"Everybody will agree, we cannot in the first instance, until we see what happens after the 19th, start to let our guard down."

There has been good take up of the Covid vaccine on the Island.

Figures released from NHS England show 104,208 Islanders have now received their first vaccination — 70.6 per cent of the Island's entire population.

Just over 59 per cent of the Island's population have now had a second vaccine, which means a total of 87,477 people have now been fully vaccinated here.

This data is as of last Thursday.