Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has announced four new deaths from coronavirus.

The deaths can sometimes take a little time to be recorded and are not all from the day they are announced.

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Today’s figures reflect two people who died on June 22 and two peope who died on June 18.

They bring the total number of people to have died at Royal Preston and Chorley Hospitals to 239.

In Preston, one new case of coronavirus has been confirmed in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the city to 482. The infection rate is now 339.9 per 100,000 people.

South Ribble has not seen any new cases confirmed with the total number remaining at 279. The infection rate remains at 252.4 per 100,000 in the borough.

Chorley has also not seen any new cases confirmed, with the number of people to have tested positive in the borough standing at 363. The infection rate is 310.7 per 100,000 people.

Across Lancashire there are now 3,836 cases of coronavirus, with the countywide infection rate standing at 317 per 100,000 people.

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