WHILE no new deaths have been reported at Warrington Hospital, the total number of people to have died in local care homes now numbers 126, taking the town’s death toll to 265.
The latest COVID-19 related deaths from the Office of National Statistics also shows two patients have died in a hospice, while three people have died at home.
Including the *134 confirmed deaths at the hospital at least 265 people have now died in Warrington after testing positive for COVID-19.
Meanwhile according to the latest Public Health England figures 1,314 have tested positive in the Warrington area which equates to 627.1 per 100,000 population.
This is one less than yesterday’s figure.
As of noon Thursday (last week’s figures in brackets) Warrington Hospital had tested 9,230 (8,334) inpatients/community of which 1,175 (1,164) had tested positive.
They were caring for 6 (9) in-patients who have tested positive for Covid-19
There was 1 (1) Covid-19 positive patient in ICU
They had successfully discharged 367 (358) patients and sadly 132 (130) had died.
A total of 134* patients have now sadly died at the hospital
*There is a discrepancy of one death between what Warrington Hospital has reported and what is being published by Public Health England.
The last confirmed death at the Hospital was on Thursday.
Across the UK the daily number of COVID-19 associated UK deaths was 22, taking the total number of deaths to 44,220.
The daily number of lab-confirmed UK cases was 516 taking the total number to 285,416.
For the latest information visit https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
