FOUR more people have died at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust who tested positive for COVID-19, say the latest figures.

NHS England figures have recorded four more deaths at the trust.

These include two patients who died on Monday, May 11, one on Sunday, May 10 and one on Thursday, April 23.

This takes the total number of people who have died in hospital at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust to 213.

There have been 244 deaths recorded in hospitals in England in today's figures.

Daily death counts are revised each day, with each case backdated to the actual date of death.

This means some of the deaths that were first recorded in the last 24 hours may actually have taken place days earlier.