Two more deaths have been reported in Lincolnshire hospitals as the number of new, confirmed cases in the county appears to slow.

Public Health England reported five more cases in the county, putting Lincolnshire's overall total of reported and confirmed cases at 584.

A spokesman for the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, which runs the hospitals at Grantham, Boston, Lincoln and Louth, said the two confirmed cases being cared for in their hospital who died with Covid-19 brings the total of deaths in their hospitals to 74.

Their statement added: "The patients were a man aged 78 and a woman aged 86. Both had underlying

health conditions." The North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Peterborough City Hospital, which serves people in Stamford, Bourne and the Deepings, did not offer an update today. Peterborough City Hospital has previously reported 26 people have died in the hospital. Overall, the UK reported 16,060 dead, an increase of 596 on yesterday. The number of confirmed and positives tests for coronavirus is 120,067, an increase of 5,850 on yesterday. In the region, Leicestershire saw an increase in the number of its cases increasing from 635 to 678. North West Lincolnshire saw numbers remain at 91. North Lincolnshire saw a drop from 168 to 167. Peterborough saw numbers in crease from 127 to 136. Rutland again remained at 12 cases. The cases do not include those at care homes or domestic homes, but those in hospital.