THE deaths of two further patients with coronavirus have been recorded at Great Western Hospital.

One patient died on Thursday and the other on Friday. Now, 117 people with the disease have died at the hospital.

So far, 38,376 people have died hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK as of 5pm on Friday, up by 215 from 38,161 the day before.

In the 24-hour period up to 9am on Saturday, 127,722 tests were carried out or dispatched with 2,445 positive results.

Overall, a total of 4,171,408 tests have been carried out and 272,826 cases have been confirmed positive.