Another 23 people have died from Covid-19 in Greater Manchester's hospitals.

It's the region's highest daily death toll since May 11.

And it brings the total number of people to have died with coronavirus in Greater Manchester's hospitals to 1,779, according to the latest NHS England figures.

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust recorded another 10 deaths on Wednesday, while Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust reported four more deaths.

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Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust each recorded three more deaths, while NHS trusts in Bolton, Salford and Wigan reported one more death each.

The figures do not include Covid-19 fatalities in the wider community, including care homes.

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The total number of coronavirus deaths at hospital trusts in Greater Manchester, as of Wednesday, May 27, is:

  • Bolton NHS Foundation Trust 210
  • Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust 9
  • Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust 372
  • NHS Nightingale Hospital North West 2
  • Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 428
  • Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust 5
  • Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust 166
  • Stockport NHS Foundation Trust 184
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust 151
  • The Christie NHS Foundation Trust 13
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust 239

On Wednesday NHS England announced 183 new deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 26,049.

The figures also show 55 of the new deaths took place between May 15 and May 23, nine took place in April and the remaining three occurred in March with the earliest on March 21.

NHS England releases updated figures each day showing the dates of every coronavirus-related deaths in hospitals in England, often including previously uncounted deaths that took place several days or even weeks ago. This is because of the time it takes for deaths to be confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19, for post-mortem examinations to be processed and for data from the tests to be validated.

According to the latest available data from the Office for National Statistics, the total number of UK deaths is more than 47,000.

The total includes new figures published on Tuesday by the ONS extrapolated from death certificates, which record cause of death, which are at their lowest levels in six weeks.