THE number of patients receiving care at Warrington Hospital after contracting coronavirus has fallen again, latest data shows.

This is according to a Covid-19 briefing issued by Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust this afternoon, Tuesday.

At present, 55 patients at the Lovely Lane site are being cared for after they tested positive for Covid in the past 14 days or less.

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

This is a fall of eight patients in total since yesterday, although the number in the ICU remains the same.

Moreover, an additional 14 patients have been discharged from Warrington Hospital in the past 24 hours after recovering from coronavirus.

This takes the hospital’s virus discharge total since the start of the pandemic to 2,960.

Sadly however, another death has been recorded of a patient that had contracted Covid-19.

As a result, this takes the trust’s Covid death toll to date to 604.

Across Warrington as a whole, the number of coronavirus cases being recorded continues to fall.

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Figures show that the town is among 174, or 54 per cent, of local authority areas in the UK that have seen a weekly decline in cases.

During the week up to January 20, which is the most recent period for which figures are available, 1,934 virus infections were recorded in the town.

This takes into account lab-reported tests and positive rapid lateral flow tests that do not have a negative confirmatory lab-based PCR test within 72 hours.

It demonstrates an infection rate of 923.6 cases among every 100,000 residents, which is the 194th highest rate in the UK at present.

Comparatively, the previous week up to January 13 saw 2,275 new cases detected at a rate of 1,086.5.