A further coronavirus death has been announced at the Royal Bolton Hospital.

NHS England said one more person had died of Covid-19 at the borough's hospital, with the death happening on Saturday August 21.

This takes the total amount of people who have died from covid at the hospital too 704 since the start of the pandemic.

The first death from the virus at the hospital was recorded on March 20 last year.

This death comes despite a falling number of patients at the hospital being treated for Covid.

As of August 17, the latest data publicly available, a total of 36 people were being treated at the hospital.

This is a significant fall from the week before, August 10, where 47 people were being treated.