LATEST UPDATE: Three new coronavirus deaths reported at hospitals in Bradford district

THERE has been one new reported death from coronavirus in hospitals in the Bradford district.

NHS England announced in today's update (Saturday, January 9) that there was one further death reported from the Covid-19 virus at hospitals in the district.

It comes after there was also one new death reported yesterday at hospitals in the Bradford district.

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The death reported today was at Airedale General Hospital.

It happened on Thursday, January 7.

There were no further deaths at Bradford Royal Infirmary (BRI) and Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.

The total death toll at hospitals in the Bradford district now stands at 656 - 465 at BRI, 189 at Airedale and two at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.

NHS England announced 58 patients at hospitals in the North East and Yorkshire who tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Of those, 28 were reported at hospitals in Yorkshire and the Humber.

Four of those were in West Yorkshire - three at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Pontefract Hospital, Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, Dewsbury and District Hospital and community health services in Wakefield, and one at Airedale.

Three were in North Yorkshire and the City of York - two at the Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust and one at the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Three were in the East Riding of Yorkshire - all three at the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The final 18 were in South Yorkshire - seven at the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, four at each of Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundations Trust and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and three at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust.

There were an extra 625 deaths reported today across England, taking the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in the country to 55,072.

Patients in today's update were aged between 24 and 101-years-old. 

All except 26 (aged 30 to 96-years-old) had known underlying health conditions.

The dates of the deaths ranges from Sunday, November 15, 2020 to Friday, January 8, 2021.

Their families have been informed.