A TOTAL of 73 patients with coronavirus have now died at York Hospital.

Another 46 such patients have died at Scarborough Hospital, bringing the total of fatalities for the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to 119.

The figure was revealed by the trust after NHS England said that nationwide, a further 391 people who tested positive for Covid-19 had died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 20,137.

Patients were aged between 15 and 101 years old, with 15 of them, aged between 49 and 97, having had no known underlying health condition.