Three people were killed within 10 days in Merseyside hospitals in tragedies that may be among the first deaths related to The recent rise in coronavirus cases In the region.
NHS England has confirmed two deaths at Trusts on Wirral And one in Liverpool, which brought the death toll in Merseyside hospital to 1,120.
A further 140 deaths related to the disease have been recorded at Warrington Hospitals and Stop on.
These numbers refer to people who have died and “have tested positive.” Covid-19 Or where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. ”
The latest announcement, released Friday, revealed the death of one person on Sept.9 at Liverpool’s NHS Foundation Trust, which operates the Royal, Aintree and Broadgreen Hospitals.
Two more deaths occurred in compounds run by the NHS Foundation of the Wirral University Teaching Hospital, on September 13 and 16.
These were the first deaths associated with condition In Merseyside Hospitals to be confirmed in public NHS numbers since 3 September.
With coronavirus cases soaring across the region in recent weeks – and striking Liverpool and Whirlpool in particular – this means that those who have died may have contracted the condition. During the high infection rate.
So far in September, Liverpool has seen an increase of 1,069 confirmed Covid-19 cases and Wirral an increase of 683.
These numbers, along with alarming infection rates in Knowsley and the increased cases in Sefton and St Helens, formed the background to the increasing social restrictions on Merseyside. Announced by the government on Friday It is scheduled to go into effect on Tuesday.
The NHS numbers only refer to hospital deaths, so the true number of coronavirus-related deaths in Merseyside will be much higher once tragedies elsewhere, including care homes, are taken into account.
Hospital deaths related to Covid-19 often take days to be confirmed publicly, so more may have died in local trust facilities in recent days.
The total coronavirus-related deaths attributed to every NHS trust in the area since the start of the pandemic are:
- Age O: 4
- Heart and chest, Liverpool: 19
- University of Liverpool Hospitals: 483
- Mercy sponsorship: 3
- Southport and Urmskirk: 151
- St. Helens and Nowsley: 209
- Walton Center: 10
- Warrington and Halton: 140
- Wirral University: 241
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