TWO further deaths due to coronavirus have been confirmed at Royal Bolton Hospital.

217 people known to have had the virus have died at the hospital since March.

There have been 1024 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Bolton- an average of 358.8 per 100,000 people.

Today, NHS England has announced 179 new deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 27,044.

The figures also show 66 of the new deaths took place between May 2 and May 30, 24 occurred in April, and the remaining four deaths took place in March, with the earliest on March 24.

NHS England releases updated figures each day showing the dates of every coronavirus-related death in hospitals in England, often including previously uncounted deaths that took place several days or even weeks ago.

This is because of the time it takes for deaths to be confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19, for post-mortem examinations to be processed and for data from the tests to be validated.

The figures published on Wednesday by NHS England show April 8 continues to have the highest number of hospital deaths on a single day, with a current total of 897.