TWO more coronavirus deaths have been confirmed at Warrington Hospital.

The latest figures show that Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust now has a Covid-19 death toll of 236 as of this afternoon, Thursday.

At present, the Lovely Lane site has 163 patients who have tested positive for the virus – 14 of which are in intensive care.

In total, 768 people who received treatment for coronavirus at Warrington Hospital have been discharged since the start of the pandemic.

WHH has now carried out 37,624 Covid-19 tests – 2,628 of which had a positive result.