A FURTHER two deaths of patients that had contracted coronavirus have been recorded at Warrington Hospital in the past 24 hours.

The sad news was confirmed this afternoon, Wednesday, by Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in its daily Covid-19 update.

It means that as a result, the hospital’s virus death toll to date has now risen to 614.

At present, 42 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.

This is a fall of one patient since yesterday, with the number in the ICU remaining the same.

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

This takes the trust’s Covid-19 discharge total since the start of the pandemic to 3,020.

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Across Warrington as a whole, the number of cases being recorded has seen a further week-on-week fall, the latest official data shows.

During the week up to January 27, which is the most recent period for which figures are available, 1,754 new cases were detected 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 837.6 cases among every 100,000 residents, which is the 282nd highest rate in the UK at present.

Comparatively, the previous seven-day period up to January 20 saw 2,227 infections recorded at a rate of 1,063.5.