A FURTHER 15 patients with coronavirus have died in hospitals across Hampshire.

NHS England statistics published today show that 15 more patients with coronavirus been recorded in the last 24 hours as having died.

It brings the county's hospital death toll up to 1,702.

A further 11 more deaths were recorded at Portsmouth Hospitals Trust, bringing the Trust's total up to 788.

Four deaths were recorded at Hampshire Hospitals Trust, bringing the total up to 396.

No more deaths were recorded at the county's other Trusts.

At University Hospital Southampton there has been a total of 416 deaths since the start of the pandemic. 

Solent NHS Trust remains with a total of eight deaths, and Southern Health NHS Trust remains at 52 deaths.