ANOTHER two deaths with coronavirus have been recorded by in a Wirral Hospital, NHS England has confirmed.

The fatalities, which occurred on February 19 and yesterday, takes the total number of patients who have died with covid-19 at Wirral University Teaching Hospital - which runs Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge - since the pandemic began to 602.

Nationally, a further 302 people who tested positive for the virus have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 82,156.

Patients were aged between 32 and 103 years old. All except 14 (aged 32 to 91 years old) had known underlying health conditions.

Date of death ranges from October 21 to February 23 with the majority being on or after February 19.

Their families have been informed.