Shropshire Star

No further Covid deaths in county

There have been no further Covid deaths in the county, NHS figures have confirmed.

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NHS England confirmed that there had been no new Covid deaths at the county's NHS trusts.

The latest announcement confirms that coronavirus death toll at the county's NHS trusts remains 595.

Of the 595, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has seen the most deaths with 554, while 34 people have died in the care of Shropshire Community Health Trust, and seven at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital near Oswestry.

There have also been 294 Covid deaths in county care homes – 219 in Shropshire and 77 in Telford & Wrekin.

Office for National Statistics figures show that 262 people in Powys have died with the virus.

Across the UK there have been another 51 coronavirus deaths taking the total to 126,764.

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