NO new coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded at St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust for the second day running.

Since the start of the outbreak, 194 people have died at the trust after testing positive for COVID-19.

Today’s figures show that no deaths linked to coronavirus were reported to NHS England and NHS improvement on Sunday.

There have also been no new cases of infections recorded in St Helens since Tuesday, with 750 confirmed cases to date, according to Public Health England.

The hospital death figures are updated every day and include confirmed death cases reported at 5pm the previous day.

However, there is often a lag over the weekend as the figures on deaths work their way through the system, meaning Monday’s figure tends to be lower before rising again on Tuesday.

At the latest count, a further 108 people who tested positive for COVID-19 have died in hospitals in England.

Patients were aged between 29 and 99 years old, while 16 of the 108 patients – aged between 48 and 94 – had no known underlying health condition.

The North West registered the most deaths, with 30.

In addition, six deaths were reported where there was no positive COVID-19 test result but where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. None of these deaths occurred in the North West.

Today’s figure brings the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 26,722.

The figures published by NHS England and NHS Improvement provides information on all coronavirus-related (suspected and confirmed) deaths in England hospitals.

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 or event weeks prior to them being reported.

The daily NHS figures do not include deaths outside hospital, such as those in care homes or in private homes. NHS England and NHS Improvement do not publish recovery figures.

While some NHS trusts have published details on the number of patients they have discharged after contracting coronavirus, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has yet to do this.