Two more Covid deaths in Shropshire
Another two people have died with coronavirus at the county's major hospitals.
NHS England confirmed that both had died while in the care of Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH).
It means that 280 people have now died while in the care of county NHS trusts since the pandemic began.
Of those 258 have died at SaTH, 17 at Shropshire Community Health Trust, and five at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital near Oswestry.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released today show there have been no further deaths in county care homes, with the current figure standing at 182 – 130 in the Shropshire Council are and 52 in the Telford & Wrekin Council area.
In Powys 126 are suspected to have died with the virus according to the ONS.
There have been another 506 deaths confirmed across the UK, taking the total to 64,908.
