Six more Covid-19 victims takes total to 342 in Northamptonshire's two main hospitals

Six more patients in Northamptonshire's two main hospitals have been added to the total of Covid-19 victims.

Latest Government figures released on Friday (May 15) revealed two of the latest deaths recorded in the 24 hours up to 5pm the previous day were at Northampton General Hospital.

Four more patients died at Kettering General Hospital — two each on Monday (May 11) and Tuesday (May 12) — taking the total to 342 at the county's two NHS trusts.

Front line NHS staff battling the Covid-19 crisis at the Cliftonville site have now seen 202 patients die since the first victims in the county on March 16. A further 140 have died at Kettering.

These latest numbers relate to data collated at 5pm on Thursday (May 14) and only include hospitalised cases. The Office for National Statistics has also revealed a total of 81 coronavirus-related deaths in county care homes up to May 8.

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