NHS England figures reveal two more patients died from Covid-19 within Chesterfield Royal Hospital

Chesterfield Royal Hospital have recorded a further two Covid-19 fatalities after patients who had tested positive for the virus passed away, the latest daily statistics have shown.

The Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has now had a total of 280 coronavirus related deaths within their hospital since the pandemic first hit last year.

Figures released by NHS England today show 609 virus deaths were recorded in hospitals in the 24 hours to 4pm on Sunday, January 24, including two in Chesterfield.

The deaths took place between December 17 and January 24, with the time taken for positive results to be received among the potential factors in a delay between a death happening and being recorded.

NHS England said the patients were aged between 30 and 101 years old and all except 14 people, aged between 41 and 96 years old, had known underlying health conditions.

The data represents the deaths of hospital patients who had tested positive for Covid-19 in the previous 28 days and whose deaths were recorded in the latest reporting period.

Since April 28 2020, NHS England and NHS Improvement also started to report the number of patient deaths where there has been no Covid-19 positive test result but it is documented as a direct or underlying cause of death in the death certification process.

The figures for the latest reporting period show there were 28 such deaths in England.

According to Government data, a total of 130 patients across all settings in Chesterfield have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 up to Monday, January 25.

This equates to 123.9 deaths per 100,000 people since the pandemic began, with the highest daily total being four deaths which happened on two separate days – January 14 and 16 of this year.

Separate Office for National Statistics data shows there have been a total of 120 deaths recorded in Chesterfield where the death certificate mentioned Covid-19 as one of the causes.

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