Covid-19 death toll hits 200 at Northampton General Hospital

NHS staff on the Covid-19 front line at Northampton General Hospital have now seen 200 victims of the bug die in just 57 days.

Confirmation that two more patients died at the Cliftonville site took the grim total to exactly 200 since the first victims died there on March 16 to the most recent on May 12.

Latest Government figures released on Thursday (May 14) revealed the latest deaths were registered on Monday and Tuesday this week (May 11 and 12).

A further 136 deaths have been recorded at Northamptonshire's other acute hospital, Kettering General — although none were added to the total in 24 hours up to 5pm on Wednesday when the latest official data was collated.

That makes the total 336 victims in the two hospitals alone, although those numbers only include hospitalised cases and do not included the 81 deaths revealed by Office for National Statistics analysts in the county's care homes up to May 8.

Public Health England revealed 233,151 people have now tested positive for Covid-19 in all settings across the UK of which 33,614 people have died, a rise of 428 since Wednesday's bulletin.

In Northamptonshire, 1,180 positive tests had been processed by labs when data was collated at 9am on Wednesday, a rise of 15 in the previous 24 hours.

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