Further nine coronavirus deaths announced in Shropshire and Powys
Three further coronavirus deaths have been announced in Shropshire along with six more in Powys.
NHS England figures show the patients who died in Shropshire were in the care of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, which runs Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital in Telford.
It means 298 patients have now died at the county's health trusts after testing positive for Covid-19, since the pandemic began.
Of those, 276 have died at SaTH, 17 at Shropshire Community Health Trust and five at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital near Oswestry.
Meanwhile office for National Statistics figures show 134 people are now suspected to have died with the virus in Powys.
As of Wednesday the UK-wide death toll stood at 69,051 after 744 new deaths were announced - the highest daily total since April.
