The number of patients dying with coronavirus in the Anglia region is lowest for a month

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According to the latest figures released by NHS England the number of people dying with coronavirus in hospitals in the Anglia region was 39, the lowest daily figure since March.

The total number of patients dying in the region's hospitals since the start of the outbreak is now 2,736.

The daily figures do usually drop at the weekend as there are delays in reporting the deaths. Last Sunday, NHS England announced 51 deaths in the Anglia region with 41 reported on Monday and the following day they had risen to 74.

There were seven more patients who died at Northampton General Hospital reported on Sunday taking the total number of deaths there to 164.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow in Essex reported three more of its patients had died with a total there of 194.

Across England, a further 327 people, who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 21,180.

NHS England said the patients were aged between 46 and 101 years old and 17 of them had no known underlying health condition.

The figures released by NHS England on a daily basis do not include people dying in hospices, in care homes or in their own home.

The map shows the number of patients who have died in hospital with coronavirus in each county in the Anglia region. Credit: Data from NHS England

Total number of deaths of patients with Covid-19 at hospitals in the Anglia region

Figures from NHS England to 5pm on Saturday 2 May 2020 released on Sunday

  • 286 - West Hertfordshire NHS Trust including Watford General (up 3 since yesterday)

  • 259 - East Suffolk & North Essex (up 2) which includes 127 at Ipswich Hospital, 131 at Colchester Hospital and 1 at Aldeburgh Hospital

  • 241 - Basildon Hospital (up 2)

  • 194 - Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow (up 3)

  • 182 - Luton & Dunstable Hospital (unchanged)

  • 164 - Northampton General Hospital (up 7)

  • 154 - Mid Essex, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford (up 1)

  • 154 - Southend Hospital (up 1)

  • 125 - NW Anglia, Peterborough & Hinchingbrooke (up 2)

  • 122 - Bedford Hospital (up 2)

  • 116 - East & North Herts including the Lister Hospital, Stevenage (up 1)

  • 112 - Kettering General Hospital (up 2)

  • 105 - Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn (up 1)

  • 95 - Milton Keynes Hospital (up 1)

  • 93 - Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge (up 3)

  • 92 - Norfolk & Norwich Hospital (unchanged)

  • 87 - James Paget Hospital, Gorleston (up 2)

  • 42 - West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds (up 2)

  • 16 - Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge (unchanged)

  • 16 - Fryatt Hospital, Harwich (up 1)

  • 14 - Essex Partnership NHS Trust (unchanged)

  • 9 - Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust (unchanged)

  • 8 - Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust (up 1)

  • 7 - Norfolk Community Health (unchanged)

  • 4 - Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Trust (unchanged)

  • 3 - Braintree Community Hospital (unchanged)

  • 2 - Beccles Hospital (unchanged)

  • 1 - Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Trust (unchanged)

  • 1 - Clacton Hospital (unchanged)

  • 1 - Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Trust (unchanged)

  • 31 - Deaths in the East of England attributed to Covid-19 without a positive test (an increase of 2 since yesterday)

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