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Dashboard changes will give more detail on Covid hospitalisations

Data to show whether patients were admitted due to virus

Changes are expected to be made to the government's Coronavirus dashboard next week to provide more details about people being treated in hospital.

Work is underway to separate how many people have been admitted because of Covid-19 from those who have it but who have been admitted for other reasons.

More than half of people who've been receiving treatment on the Covid ward this week have been there directly as a result of the virus.

But Health Minister David Ashford says some patients are difficult to classify:

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