THE number of patients being cared for at Warrington Hospital after contracting coronavirus has fallen again.
The news was released this afternoon, Tuesday, by Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in its daily Covid-19 update.
However, another Covid patient death has sadly been confirmed in the past 24 hours.
As a result, this takes the hospital’s virus death toll to date to 601.
At present, 71 beds at the Lovely Lane site are occupied by patients that have tested positive for coronavirus in the past 14 days or less.
Of this number, three are in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
This is a fall of six patients in total since yesterday, with the number in the ICU remaining unchanged.
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Moreover, eight more patients were discharged from Warrington Hospital over the past 24 hours after recovering from Covid-19.
This takes the trust’s virus discharge total since the start of the pandemic to 2,894.
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