Three more Covid deaths at Shropshire hospitals
Another three people have died with Covid at Shropshire's major hospitals.
The latest deaths, announced by NHS England on Friday, take the total number of people to have died with the virus at county NHS trusts to 440.
All three of the deaths announced today came at Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH).
Of the total 410 have now died at SaTH, 24 at Shropshire Community Health Trust, and six at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital near Oswestry.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) 227 people have also died in county care homes with Covid – 166 in Shropshire and 61 in Telford & Wrekin.
The ONS also shows that 173 people have now died with the virus in Powys.
A spokesman for NHS said: "A further 744 people, who tested positive for the coronavirus (Covid-19) have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 70,545.
"Patients were aged between 24 and 101 years old. All except 26 (aged 24 to 96 years old) had known underlying health conditions.
"Their families have been informed."
