ONE more person has died at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust after contracting coronavirus.

The latest data from NHS England show that one patient died at the trust, which runs Whiston, St Helens and Newton hospitals, on Wednesday, May 6.

This means the death toll at the trust now stands at 164.

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St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has not revealed how many patients it has discharged after contracting coronavirus.

However, this week the trust’s medical director, Rowan Pritchard Jones, said that it was widely acknowledged that the trust was “past the first peak”.

He revealed the number of patients in Whiston Hospital had fallen from more than 200 to around 100.

The acknowledgement came just days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK was past the peak of the outbreak.

According to today’s update from NHS England, a further 383 people who tested positive for COVID-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 22,432.

Patients were aged between 28 and 100 years old.  Out of the 383 patients, 41 of them, aged between 28 and 96 years old, had no known underlying health condition.

The hospital figures are updated by NHS England each day and include confirmed death cases reported at 5pm the previous day.

The 383 deaths are patients who have died in hospitals in England and had tested positive for COVID-19.

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In addition, 31 deaths were recorded by NHS England where the patient had not tested positive for COVID-19 but where it was mentioned on the death certificate.

Outside of hospitals, at least 51 deaths in the borough’s care homes have been linked to coronavirus, based on death notifications provided to St Helens Council by care providers.

Coronavirus is also known to have been involved in the deaths of four people in St Helens who died at home, according to the Office for National Statistics.