SEVEN more patients with COVID-19 were confirmed to have died at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SaTH) on Saturday.

The new confirmed cases bring the overall total of patients to die at SaTH to 74.

A spokesman for the hospital offered the patients' families their condolences.

They said: "Sadly we can confirm that 74 patients being cared for at our hospitals, and who had tested positive for COVID-19, have died. Seven deaths have been announced today.

"Our thoughts and condolences are with the families and friends of those patients at this very difficult and distressing time."