ONE more patient has sadly died at Warrington Hospital after testing positive for Covid-19.

This means a total of 127 people have now died at the Trust.

The death was recorded on Saturday.

To date, the Trust has tested 6,543 inpatients/community of which 1,123 have tested positive for the virus.

Staff are caring for 33 inpatients who have tested positive for Covid-19 at any time during their hospital stay.

Of these, 15 have recovered from the virus and have now tested negative and 18 patients remain Covid-19 positive.

There are no Covid-19 patients in ICU after three people were being treated in there the week before last.

The Trust has discharged 335 patients.

According to the latest government data, 795 residents have now tested positive for the virus.