Four more coronavirus deaths take pandemic total in the Anglia region to 6,000

4,150 people have died with Covid-19 in hospitals in the Anglia region since the start of the pandemic Credit: PA Images

The NHS has announced four more patients have died with Covid-19 in the Anglia region with three of them passing away at Northampton General Hospital.

Northampton General has the highest coronavirus death toll of any hospital in the Anglia region with 310 patients losing their lives there since the start of the pandemic.

The latest deaths take the total number of people dying with coronavirus in the area to 6,000.

The total figure includes people who have died without a positive test for Covid-19 but where the condition was declared on death certificates.

The NHS announced on Tuesday that there had been two deaths in the Anglia region while in its announcements at the weekend seven deaths were reported.

There were 14 Covid-19 deaths in hospitals in the Anglia region in the week to 26 July compared to 22 deaths in the seven days before that.

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

There have been 29,100 cases of coronavirus in the Anglia region confirmed by a positive test although health experts say there will have been many thousands more have not been tested or didn't show symptoms.

The number of confirmed cases in the region announced by Public Health England has risen by 469 in the past seven days compared with an additional 521 cases in the previous week.

Confirmed coronavirus cases in each county in the Anglia region since the start of the pandemic (Public Health England)

  • Bedfordshire - 4,156 cases - an increase of 81 (2.0%) in the past week

  • Cambridgeshire - 3,730 cases - an increase of 84 (2.3%) in the past week

  • Essex - 6,921 cases - an increase of 92 (1.3%) in the past week

  • Hertfordshire - 4,262 cases - an increase of 54 (1.3%) in the past week

  • Milton Keynes - 873 cases - an increase of 9 (1.0%) in the past week

  • Norfolk - 2,893 cases - an increase of 21 (0.7%) in the past week

  • Northamptonshire - 3,486 cases - an increase of 88 (2.6%) in the past week

  • Rutland - 100 cases - an increase of 2 (2.0%) in the past week

  • Suffolk - 2,679 cases - an increase of 38 (1.4%) in the past week

Northampton General saw three more patients dying with coronavirus on 26 July taking the total for the hospital to 310 Credit: ITV News Anglia

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

Figures from NHS England to 5pm on Tuesday 28 July 2020 released on Wednesday

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

  • 353 - East Suffolk & North Essex (unchanged) which includes hospitals in Aldeburgh, Colchester, Felixstowe and Ipswich

  • 310 - Northampton General Hospital (up 3)

  • 307 - Basildon Hospital (unchanged)

  • 282 - Luton & Dunstable Hospital (unchanged)

  • 249 - Southend Hospital (unchanged)

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

  • 224 - Bedford Hospital (unchanged)

  • 219 - Kettering General Hospital (unchanged)

  • 201 - Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow (unchanged)

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

  • 166 - East & North Herts Trust including the Lister Hospital, Stevenage (unchanged)

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

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

  • 123 - Norfolk & Norwich Hospital (unchanged)

  • 117 - James Paget Hospital, Gorleston (unchanged)

  • 104 - Milton Keynes Hospital (unchanged)

  • 199 - Deaths in hospitals in the East of England attributed to Covid-19 on the death certificate but without a positive test (an increase of 1 since yesterday)

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