THREE more deaths with coronavirus have been recorded at Arrowe Park Hospital, NHS England has confirmed today.

The fatalities, which occured on Monday and Wednesday (November 16 and 18), take the total number of patients who have passed away after testing positive with the virus at Wirral University Teaching Hospital - which runs Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge - since the pandemic began to 332.

Nationally, a further 326 people, who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 37,796.

Patients were aged between 29 and 100 years old. All except six (aged 50-82) had known underlying health conditions.

Their families have been informed.