CORONAVIRUS: Health chief optimistic after no Covid-19-related deaths in Lincolnshire hospitals in June
Lincolnshire’s health bosses say there have been no new COVID-19 related deaths in Lincolnshire’s hospitals at all in June.
The figures released by the NHS last changed the number of deaths from 139-140 on June 8, nearly two weeks ago.
However, health bosses say the last time the figure increased on their system was on May 29 – another 10 days prior.
The NHS figures often include deaths from earlier dates that have just been confirmed as coronavirus related.
If there are no deaths reported later today, that means the county will have gone 24 days without COVID-19 related deaths being reported.
Director of public health at Lincolnshire County Council Derek Ward: “We’ve seen virtually no new deaths and a complete flattening out with the number of deaths in the county over the last couple of weeks, which is which is great and obviously it’s what we want to see.”
The number of cases has, however, continued to rise slowly with one extra case over the weekend seeing the total in Lincolnshire increase to 1,141.
Across Greater Lincolnshire (including North and North East Lincolnshire) there have been 326 COVID-19 deaths and 1,829 cases so far.
Nationally, government has confirmed 304,331 cases and 42,632 deaths in total.