A FURTHER 16 patients with coronavirus have died in hospitals across Hampshire.

NHS England statistics published today show that 16 more patients with coronavirus been recorded in the last 24 hours as having died.

It brings the county's hospital death toll up to 1,736.

Yesterday, two deaths were recorded across the county. 

A further nine deaths were recorded at Portsmouth Hospitals Trust, bringing the Trust's total up to 830.

Seven deaths were recorded at University Hospital Southampton bringing the Trust's total to 439. 

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

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has had 405 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

Solent NHS Trust remains with a total of eight deaths and Southern Health NHS Trust remains at 54.