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

The latest NHS figures show that one person died at the trust – which runs Whiston, St Helens and Newton hospitals – on Wednesday, May 27.

Since the start of the outbreak, 193 people have died at the trust after testing positive for COVID-19.

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NHS England and NHS Improvement – which provides information on all coronavirus-related (suspected and confirmed) deaths in England hospitals – do not publish recovery figures.

While some NHS trusts have published details on the number of patients they have discharged after contracting coronavirus, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has yet to do this.

Across the country, a further 149 people who tested positive for the COVID-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 26,383.

Patients were aged between 35 and 101 years old, while 11 of the 149 patients – aged 70 and 95 –had no known underlying health condition.

In addition, 29 deaths, including four in the North West, were reported where there was no positive COVID-19 test result.

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

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Cases are only included in the data when a positive COVID-19 test result is received, or where COVID-19 is documented as a direct or underlying cause of death on the death certificate.

This results in a lag between a given date of death and the daily death figures for that day, meaning that reported deaths may have occurred several days or in some cases weeks prior.

The daily figures do not include deaths outside hospital, such as those in care homes or in private homes.