NO new coronavirus-related deaths have been announced at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

At the latest count, zero deaths were registered by the trust, which runs Whiston, St Helens and Newton hospitals.

Since the start of the outbreak, 201 people have died at the trust after testing positive for COVID-19.

Across England, further 83 people have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 27,790.

Patients were aged between 26 and 102 years old, and all had known underlying health conditions.

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

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 reported deaths may have occurred several days or event weeks prior to them being reported.

These figures do not include deaths outside hospital, such as those in care homes.

At least 76 deaths have been lined to coronavirus in St Helens’ care homes, based on death notifications provided to St Helens Council.

NHS England and NHS Improvement do not publish recovery figures.

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has also published no specific data related to how many patients it is caring for or discharged who have contracted COVID-19.

However, the number of deaths and confirmed infections has noticeably slowed locally in recent weeks.

The latest figures from Public Health England show that 757 people had been confirmed as testing positive for COVID-19 by 9am on June 10 in St Helens.

This has gone down from 762 the same time on Tuesday after the figure had increased by five.

PHE says the figures are constantly reviewed and “technical issues” can affect the cumulative figure counts.