Six new coronavirus deaths announced 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.

Six were recorded today, Friday April 17, bringing the total across the trust to 122.

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

The new 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 have tested positive for Covid-19.

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.