WARRINGTON Hospital has confirmed how many patients it is currently caring for that have tested positive for coronavirus.

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust previously published daily updates detailing the Covid situation at the Lovely Lane site.

This was halted for a period for a data validation exercise, but the trust has now resumed its daily Covid briefings.

As of this afternoon, Wednesday, the hospital is providing care for 14 patients with a confirmed positive result 14 days or less from their first positive sample.

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To date, 2,017 patients have been discharged from the hospital after recovering from the virus.

Since the start of the pandemic, the trust has recorded 499 deaths of patients that had tested positive for Covid-19.