Another 21 people have died from coronavirus in Greater Manchester's hospitals.
It means the death toll in the region's hospitals has reached 1,800, NHS figures have confirmed.
And the North West is now the UK's Covid-19 hotspot, with 50 deaths reported on Thursday.
That's roughly double the number of daily fatalities in the South East and Yorkshire and about a third higher than the Midlands. London only saw 18 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust recorded another nine deaths on Thursday, while Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust reported six more deaths.
There were two more deaths at NHS Bolton Foundation Trust, while NHS Nightingale Hospital North West, the temporary coronavirus hospital set up at Manchester Central Convention Complex, reported its third death.
NHS trusts in Stockport and Tameside and Wigan also reported one more death each.
The figures do not include Covid-19 fatalities in the wider community, including care homes.
The total number of coronavirus deaths at hospital trusts in Greater Manchester, as of Thursday, May 28, is:
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust 212
- Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust 9
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust 378
- NHS Nightingale Hospital North West 3
- Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 437
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust 5
- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust 166
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust 185
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust 152
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust 13
- Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust 240
On Thursday NHS England announced 185 new deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 26,234.
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.
Figures released on Wednesday show there have been nearly 60,000 excess deaths in the UK since the outbreak began.
