THE number of patients at Warrington Hospital that are receiving care after contracting coronavirus has remained stable over the past 48 hours.

This is according to the latest Covid-19 update issued by Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust this afternoon, Friday.

At present, 41 beds at the Lovely Lane site are occupied by patients that have tested positive for the virus 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 Wednesday afternoon, with the number in the ICU remaining the same.

Moreover, a further 17 patients have been discharged from Warrington Hospital in the past 48 hours after recovering from coronavirus.

This takes the trust’s virus discharge total since the start of the pandemic to 3,037.

Sadly however, another Covid-19 death has been recorded since Wednesday.

As a result, this takes the hospital’s coronavirus death toll to date to 615.

Across Warrington as a whole, the number of new Covid cases being recorded continues to fall, the latest official data shows.

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During the week up to January 29, which is the most recent period for which figures are available, 1,655 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 790.4 cases among every 100,000 residents, which is the 291st highest rate in the UK at present.

Comparatively, the previous seven-day period up to January 22 saw 2,138 infections recorded at a rate of 1,021.