Fourteen more Sunderland coronvirus care home deaths confirmed as North-East toll nears 650

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Details of the fatalities, which have been released on Tuesday, Mary 12, take the overall recorded number of covid-19 deaths at city care homes since April 10 to 68.

The Government recently bowed to pressure to release care home death figures and is now announcing weekly breakdowns for individual local authorities through the Office for National Statistics.

The latest figures cover the week ending May 8 and show an increase regionally of 271 coronavius deaths to 641.

Localised figures for care home deaths have been released.

This compares to the 370 total North East figure recorded up to May 1.

They follow statistics released earlier in the day by NHS England which showed that the number of covid-19 related deaths in hospitals across the region had increased by 11 from May 11 to 1,198.

There were no recorded deaths within South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust for the first time since April with the number of fatalities remaining at 299.

The alphabetical breakdown of North-East care home deaths up to May 8 is as follows:

County Durham - 170

Darlington - 39

Gateshead - 59

Hartlepool - 28

Middlesbrough - 39

Newcastle - 58

North Tyneside - 33

Northumberland - 65

Redcar & Cleveland - 19

South Tyneside - 45

Sunderland - 68

Stockton - 18

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Fourteen more Sunderland coronvirus care home deaths confirmed as North-East toll nears 650

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