NO new coronavirus deaths have been recorded at Warrington Hospital over the past 24 hours.

The positive news was announced by Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust this afternoon, Thursday, in its daily Covid-19 briefing.

It means that the trust’s virus death toll remains at 508.

At present, 24 beds at the Lovely Lane site are occupied by patients that have tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 14 days or less.

Of this number, five are in the hospital’s intensive care unit.

This demonstrates a fall of two patients since yesterday, although the number in ICU remains the same.

Moreover, four more patients have been discharged after recovering from coronavirus in the past 24 hours.

As a result, the hospital’s virus discharge total since the start of the pandemic has risen to 2,106.

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Across Warrington as a whole, the rate of new coronavirus cases continues to fall, according to the latest figures from Public Health England.

Statistics showed that in the week before July 24, the most recent period for which data is available, there were 900 cases detected in the town.

This is an infection rate of 428.5 cases per every 100,000 residents, which is the 58th highest level in the country.

In comparison, in the seven days before July 17 there were 1,435 positive cases across the borough – or 683.3 cases per every 100,000 people.

Warrington is among 98 per cent of local areas in England that have seen a fall, while two per cent have seen a week-on-week rise in rates.