One more death recorded in St Helens

There was one more coronavirus death recorded over the latest weekly period in St Helens.

A total of 717 people had died in the area when the UK coronavirus dashboard was updated on October 27 (Thursday) – up from 716 on the week before.

They were among 27,028 deaths recorded across the North West.

The figures include anyone who died within 28 days of a positive test result for Covid-19, and whose usual residence was in St Helens.

A total of 169,882 deaths were recorded throughout England by October 27 (Thursday) – up from 168,913 last week.