THREE more coronavirus deaths have been confirmed at Royal Bolton hospital.

Latest NHS figures now show that 617 have died from Covid-19 at the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.

This is up three from the toll of 614 on Monday.

There have been more than 24,000 cases in the borough to date.

Nationally, the Government said a further 343 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Tuesday, bringing the UK total to 123,296.

The Government also said that, as of 9am on Tuesday, there had been a further 6,391 lab-confirmed cases in the UK.

It brings the total to 4,188,400.

Government data up to March 1 shows that of the 21,322,717 jabs given in the UK so far.