THE number of patients at Warrington Hospital receiving care after contracting coronavirus remains stable.

This is according to the latest update published by Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in its daily Covid-19 briefing this afternoon, Tuesday.

At present, 13 beds at the Lovely Lane site are occupied by patients that have tested positive for Covid in the past 14 days or less.

Of this number, only one is in the hospital’s intensive care unit.

Sadly however, one patient has died since yesterday after contracting the virus.

As a result, this takes the trust’s coronavirus death toll to date to 564.

A further patient was discharged from the hospital in the past 24 hours after recovering from Covid-19.

This takes the trust’s Covid discharge total since the start of the pandemic to 2,545.

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Across Warrington as a whole, the number of new coronavirus cases being recorded has risen slightly.

Latest figures for the seven day period leading to November 18 show that 806 positive cases were detected in the town.

This equates to a rate of 384.9 cases among every 100,000 residents, meaning Warrington has the 259th highest case rate in the UK.

By comparison, the previous seven-day period up to November 11 saw 772 cases recorded at a rate of 368.7.

Warrington is among 298 local authority areas in the UK that have seen a week-on-week rise in rates (79 per cent), while 76 areas have seen a fall (20 per cent) and three are unchanged.