NO new deaths have been included in today’s coronavirus figures for St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The figures are updated by NHS England and NHS Improvement every day and include confirmed death cases reported at 5pm the previous day.

At the latest count, zero coronavirus-related deaths were recorded by the trust, which runs Whiston, St Helens and Newton hospitals.

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Since the start of the outbreak, 204 people have died at the trust after testing positive for coronavirus.

Cases are only included in the data when a positive COVID-19 test result is received, or where COVID-19 is documented as a direct or underlying cause of death on the death certificate.

This results in a lag between a given date of death and the daily death figures for that day, meaning reported deaths may have occurred several days prior to them being reported.

Across the country, a further 77 people who tested positive for the COVID-19 have died.

Patients were aged between 29 and 98 years old. Two patients, aged 62 and 98, had no known underlying health conditions.

In addition, 12 people died where COVID-19 was mentioned on their death certificate but where there was no positive test result.

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Today’s figures brings the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 28,138.

NHS England and NHS Improvement do not publish recovery figures.

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has not published any data related to how many patients it is caring for or discharged who have contracted COVID-19.