FOR a second day in a row, there were no new deaths recorded in Bradford district hospitals.

Unfortunately, this was not the case nationally with a further 16 fatalities taking the total number in the country's hospitals to 86,961.

The number of deaths in the district's hospitals remains at 885 - 623 at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 260 at Airedale and two at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.

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."