One death has been recorded by the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust today (June 4).

The total reported deaths for the trust that operates The Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle and West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven, is now 147.

This is the first death recorded within the trust in just over two weeks.

No deaths were recorded at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust which operates Furness General Hospital in Barrow and Lancaster Royal Infirmary and the total there remains at 162.

The Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the Carleton Clinic in Carlisle, reported zero deaths.

The trust hasn't reported a death since April 26 and the death toll remains at seven.

Boris Johnson may have to self-isolate if Business Secretary Alok Sharma tests positive for coronavirus after they met in No 10 this week, Downing Street said.

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said the PM and Chancellor Rishi Sunak held a 45-minute socially distanced meeting on the economy with Mr Sharma on Tuesday.

The spokesman said Mr Johnson would follow medical advice if spoken to by contact tracers who would begin their work if Mr Sharma’s test for Covid-19 comes back positive.

Downing Street said the Government was not reconsidering its move to end virtual voting in the Commons, despite the Business Secretary appearing visibly ill in the chamber on Wednesday.

The spokesman said: “He does not yet have his test results. Should the Secretary of State receive a positive test then he will work with the test and trace service to share information about his recent interactions.

“He did attend a meeting in No 10, which took place before Cabinet. That was a discussion on the economy and in terms of who was present, it was the Prime Minister, the Chancellor and the Business Secretary.”

He stressed the meeting took place with two-metre distancing in place and pointed towards the Government guidelines on how the tracers operate, which include asking individuals whether they had been to a workplace recently.

The spokesman confirmed that even those who have had Covid-19 must isolate and, when pressed on whether the PM would self-isolate if told to, he said: “I would expect us to take medical advice and to follow it.”

As a way of slowing the virus’s spread, contact tracers with the NHS service are asking infected individuals who they have come into recent contact with.

Tracers will then decide whether it is necessary to tell those contacts to self-isolate for 14 days from their last contact with the individual, as a precaution.