Eight more patients have died with coronavirus in the Anglia region

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More than 4,000 patients have died with coronavirus in hospitals in the Anglia region since the start of the pandemic. Credit: Peter Byrne/PA Wire/PA Images

The NHS reported on Thursday that eight more coronavirus patients had died in hospitals in the Anglia region following 24 deaths announced on Wednesday.

The total number of patients dying in the hospitals in the Anglia region has now reached 4,051 and the total number of deaths in all settings, including care home, hospitals and in the community is 5,821.

Three of the deaths announced in Thursday figures occurred early in June but have only just been included in the totals. They were two patients dying at the Luton & Dunstable Hospital in Bedfordshire on the 5th and 8th June and a patient dying on the 8th June at the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Trust, which operates the main hospitals in Ipswich and Colchester.

A further patient passed away with Covid-19 at Northampton General Hospital on Monday taking the total number of deaths there to 298. Another coronavirus patient died at the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston on Sunday.

Thursday figures also included three patients who had Covid-19 mentioned on their death certificate but where no positive test was received.

The map shows the number of people with coronavirus who have died in each county in the Anglia region. Credit: Data from Office of National Statistics, the NHS and the Care Quality Commission

Hospitals or NHS Trusts in the Anglia region with more than 100 coronavirus deaths

Figures from NHS England to 5pm on Wednesday 1st July 2020 released on Thursday

  • 363 - West Hertfordshire NHS Trust including Watford General (unchanged since yesterday)

  • 349 - East Suffolk & North Essex (up 1) which includes hospitals in Aldeburgh, Colchester, Felixstowe and Ipswich

  • 304 - Basildon Hospital (unchanged)

  • 298 - Northampton General Hospital (up 1)

  • 277 - Luton & Dunstable Hospital (up 2)

  • 233 - NW Anglia, Peterborough & Hinchingbrooke (unchanged)

  • 233 - Southend Hospital (unchanged)

  • 213 - Kettering General Hospital (unchanged)

  • 212 - Bedford Hospital (unchanged)

  • 201 - Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow (unchanged)

  • 193 - Mid Essex, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford (unchanged)

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

  • 147 - Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn (unchanged)

  • 124 - Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge (unchanged)

  • 123 - Norfolk & Norwich Hospital (unchanged)

  • 117 - James Paget Hospital, Gorleston (up 1)

  • 103 - Milton Keynes Hospital (unchanged)

  • 179 - Deaths in hospitals in the East of England attributed to Covid-19 on the death certificate but without a positive test (an increase of 3 since yesterday)

The graph shows the number of patients dying in the Anglia region each day with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. Credit: Data from NHS England