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

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

It brings the county's hospital death toll up to 1,781.

Today's update from NHS England reported that there were three more at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, all on February 19. This took the trust's death total to 421.

Five were recorded at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, two on 20th and three on 19th Feb, taking the total to 844.

Three patients died with Covid-19 at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, all on 20th Feb, taking the trust total to 454.

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

Solent NHS Trust remains with a total of eight deaths and Southern Health NHS Trust remains with 57 deaths.

Yesterday, there were nine deaths recorded across the county's hospitals.