A FURTHER patient has died at a Warrington and Halton hospital after testing positive for Covid-19.

The patient sadly passed away yesterday, Tuesday, and was the only coronavirus-related hospital death in England.

The death toll at Warrington And Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust now stands at 138.

It comes exactly a week after the trust’s last death.

According to the latest data from NHS England, the total number of confirmed reported coronavirus deaths in hospitals in England is 29,431.