Royal Bolton Hospital is approaching three weeks with no deaths recorded as coronavirus as their are no fatalities reported over the weekend.

No new deaths were recorded on the latests round of figures released today.

According to NHS England, nobody has died of the coronavirus at The Royal Bolton Hospital since June 10.

221 people have died at the hospital overall since the pandemic began, with the first death occurring on March 20.

However, the figures do not include people in the community or in care homes who have also died from Covid- 19.

Five deaths were recorded across Lancashire over the weekend.

No deaths were reported on Sunday in Lancashire's hospitals for the third time last week, with all five of them reported on Saturday.

Elsewhere Salford Royal Hospital recorded one death over the weekend, again reported on Saturday, after declaring it has discharged 336 in total over the virus.