NHS England has announced 186 new deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19 with the death toll of coronavirus patients at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital rising again, making the total 105.
In the past 24 hours the number of fatalities has risen by four.
NHS England have said a further 186 people, who tested positive for the Coronavirus have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 24,346.
NHS England releases updated figures each day showing the dates of every coronavirus-related death in hospitals in England, often including previously uncounted deaths that took place several days or even weeks ago. This is because of the time it takes for deaths to be confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19, for post-mortem examinations to be processed and for data from the tests to be validated.
