One new coronavirus death announced today within Morecambe Bay health trust

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.

One death was recorded on Friday, April 24, bringing the total across the trust to 136.

There is a delay in reporting the figures which means that each death is not reported by the NHS on the following day.

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

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 had tested positive for Covid-19.

And as of Tuesday, April 21, 192 people had been discharged from one of the trust's hospitals following treatment for coronavirus.