One more death from coronavirus confirmed by trust which runs Grantham Hospital as deaths in Greater Lincolnshire pass 100

More than 100 people who tested positive for coronavirus in Greater Lincolnshire have died in the county’s hospitals.

One more patient has died of the virus in the hospitals run by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust. It means the death toll in the county has now increased to 101.

Seventy people have died in ULHT hospitals.

A spokesperson for ULHT said: “Sadly we can confirm that one further patient who was being cared for in one of our hospitals and had tested positive for COVID-19, has died.

“The patient was a woman aged 80. She had underlying health conditions.

“Her family has been informed and our thoughts and condolences are with them at this difficult and distressing time.”

NHS England said a further 738 people have died after testing positive for COVID-19.

Patients were aged between 32 and 101 years old, 30 of them had no known underlying health condition.

The UK-wide death toll now stands at 14,576, an increase of 847.