A FURTHER three Covid-19-related hospital deaths have been reported in the Bradford district today.

According to the latest NHS figures, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust reported one, while Airedale NHS Foundation Trust reported two.

At Bradford, the one patient died on Tuesday, January 12, while one patient died at Airedale on January 12 and another patient died the following day.

It means that the total number of hospital deaths in the district, according to NHS England figures, now stands at 677 - 479 at Bradford Teaching Hospitals, 196 at Airedale and two at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Meanwhile, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust reported one death, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust reported eight deaths and Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust reported seven deaths.

Nationally, a further 884 people, who tested positive for the Coronavirus (Covid-19) have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 58,712.

Patients were aged between 27 and 101 years old. All except 48 (aged 38 to 101 years old) had known underlying health conditions.

Date of death ranges from December 4, 2020 to January 13, 2021.

Their families have been informed.

The figures are updated at 2pm each day and include confirmed death cases reported at 4pm the previous day.

NHS England says: "Confirmation of Covid-19 diagnosis, death notification, death certificates and reporting in central figures can take up to several days and the hospitals providing the data are under significant operational pressure.

"This means that the totals reported at 4pm on each day may not include all deaths that occurred on that day or on recent prior days."