More coronavirus deaths have been reported in Liverpool as 190 people died across England with the virus.
In new data released on Monday, eight more deaths were reported from the Liverpool University Hospital Trust as cases continue to rise here.
A further seven deaths were also reported from the Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals Trust.
Elsewhere in England, the NHS said that a further 190 people, who had tested positive for coronavirus, had died in hospitals.
These newly reported deaths had brought the total in England since the start of the pandemic to 45, 592 people who had died from the virus.
Also according to NHS data, a total of 1.17m people had tested positive for the virus this year.
As of today, almost 100,000 people in Liverpool had been tested for coronavirus as part of the city's pilot mass testing programme.
These are the current covid-19 death tolls for NHS Trusts covering our region, since the start of the year:
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust 4
- Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust 4
- Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 22
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 839 (+8)
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust 4
- Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust 218
- St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 322
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust 10
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 321
- Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 228 (+7)
Mayor Joe Anderson said that the rate in the city was equivalent to 284 cases per 100,000 of population, compared to 680 a few weeks ago.
He also said that worrying levels of ICU admissions in the city's hospitals had started to plateau or even fall which he described as "promising."
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Speaking to the ECHO, Mayor Anderson also continued to urge people to be tested if they had not yet done so.
He said: "The reality is we are confident we are doing the right thing[with mass testing] and there is very little negative out of this at all.
"Other than taking 10-15 minutes out of people's lives to come and get tested and given we want to break the chain for the good of ourselves, the community, family, workforce, and good of our city, then that's 15 minutes well spent in my view."
