Four new coronavirus deaths announced within Morecambe Bay health trust

Four further deaths from coronavirus were announced today at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.
The Royal Lancaster Infirmary.The Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
The Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

The way deaths are announced nationally has now changed, and as a result only trust-wide figures are being released by NHS England.

The trust includes the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Westmorland General Hospital in Kendal and Furness General Hospital in Barrow.

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Four were recorded today, Wednesday April 15, bringing the total across the trust to 114.

As of Friday April 3 - the most recent date that individual hospital data was available - 18 people were known to have died at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary who have tested positive for Covid-19.

The new statistics include patients who died in hospital - but not other places, such as care homes.

As of Tuesday evening, 141 people had been discharged from one of the trust's hospitals following treatment for coronavirus, according to the trust's social media.