A FURTHER patient has died with coronavirus at one of the conurbations main NHS hospitals, latest figures confirmed.

The daily update from NHS England published on Monday, February 15, said a University Hospitals Dorset patient died with Covid-19 on Saturday, February 13.

This took the trust's fatality total since the start of the pandemic to 610, across Royal Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch hospitals.

No further deaths were recorded at Dorset County Hospital (DCH) and Dorset HealthCare sites.

To date, 99 people have died with the virus at DCH and 67 have at Dorset HealthCare.

Across England, a further 231 patients died with Covid-19 in hospital, taking the total to 79,120.

The deaths date back to December 24 and six came in the south west.