Death rate slows but two more Covid-19 victims adds to tragic total at Northampton General Hospital

Two more Covid-19 victims have been added to the sobering total of patients dying at Northampton General Hospital.

Bosses at the Cliftonville site confirmed the two who died on VE Day (Friday May 8) are included in the latest Government figures released today.

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust's medical director Matthew Metcalfe said: “Sadly we can confirm that a further two patients who had been tested positive for COVID-19 have died.

"Their families have been informed and our thoughts and condolences are with them at this difficult and distressing time."

NHS staff battling the Covid-19 crisis on the front line in Northampton have now seen 193 patients die since the first victims March 16.

Seven of those have been announced in the last week, compared to 29 in a seven-day spell when the pandemic was peaking in the UK between April 18 and April 24.

A further 123 people have died at Kettering General Hospital, although no further deaths in the north of county were announced for the second day running.

That takes the grim total of victims at Northamptonshire's two NHS Trust hospitals to 316 when the latest data was collated at 5pm yesterday (Sunday May 10).

These figures only include hospitalised cases, however and do not count 60 known coronavirus-related deaths in county care homes between April 10 and May 1.

Across the UK, Public Health England revealed a total of 32,065 victims have now died The daily rise of 210 is the lowest since March 26, three days after lockdown started, when the total number of deaths stood at 578.

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