No new deaths of patients with Covid-19 were recorded at either Southport Hospital, Ormskirk Hospital or across Lancashire in today’s daily NHS figures.
It is the fourth time this month. A total of 21 deaths of people with symptoms including Coronavirus in UK hospitals were recorded today.
It is the third time this week that no further deaths were reported at Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, East Lancashire Hospitals and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust this month.
On June 28, the total figures for coronavirus related deaths at Lancashire hospitals currently stand at:
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust – 148
Blackpool teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – 232
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – 241
University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust – 167
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust – 199
There have been a total of 979 confirmed coronavirus cases across Sefton since March.
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Another 21 people have died with coronavirus in hospitals in England and in Wales and Northern Ireland, taking the total death toll to 43,535.
NHS England today confirmed another 18 fatalities in its hospitals, while two more people have died in Wales and one in Northern Ireland.
One of the Government’s top scientific advisers however warned this morning that England is ‘on a knife-edge’ as it eases lockdown, with the virus still a threat.
Scotland’s outlook appears sunnier, however, and one expert said it could be ‘Covid-free’ by the end of Summer – but will have to be vigilant about imported cases.
Coronavirus appears to be only just under control in England, with one of the Government’s leading scientific advisers, Sir Jeremy Farrar, admitting the country is in a ‘very precarious’ situation.
A surge in infections in Leicester has led the Government to consider imposing the first local lockdown on the city within days.
Home Secretary Priti Patel this morning admitted it was ‘correct’ that officials were considering putting stricter rules into force in Leicester than elsewhere in England.
She said on The Andrew Marr Show: ‘We have seen flare-ups across the country in recent weeks, in just the last three or four weeks in particular.
‘There will be support going into Leicester and in fact the Health Secretary was in touch with many of us over the weekend explaining some of the measures, the support on testing, resources that will go into the local authority as well.
‘With local flare-ups it is right we have a localised solution in terms of infection control’.
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