THREE more patients with coronavirus have died at York Hospital.

The fatalities takes the total number of Covid-19 related deaths reported at the hospital to 116 so far.

Another 77 such patients are reported to have died at Scarborough Hospital, taking the overall totalof deaths at the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to 193.

Meanwhile, nationwide, a further 174 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 24,913.

NHS England said patients were aged between seven and 102 years old, and six of them, aged between 45 and 90, had no known underlying health condition.