About one in five of Britain's patients with COVID-19 caught the disease while in hospital, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported, citing papers by government scientists.
At the peak of the coronavirus outbreak in Britain, transmission within hospitals was believed to account for up to 22 percent of cases in hospitalized patients, and up to 11 percent of deaths, the report added.
Data from Public Health England showed that as Saturday, the UK has logged 292,950 cases of the disease, with 41,481 deaths.
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