Two coronavirus patients being cared for by West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust have died.

NHS England today confirmed the latest deaths, one from March 30 and the other April 1, at the trust which runs Watford General Hospital.

The NHS trust, which also runs Hemel Hempsted Hospital and St Albans City Hospital, has so far confirmed a total of 31 deaths.

Daily death counts are revised each day, with each case backdated to the actual date of death.

This means some of the deaths that were first recorded in the last 24 hours may actually have taken place days earlier.

NHS England guidance states: "Confirmation of COVID-19 diagnosis, death notification and reporting in central figures can take up to several days and the hospitals providing the data are under significant operational pressure."

Across the UK, a further 637 people, who tested positive have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 3,939.

Of the newly confirmed deaths, patients were aged between five years and 104 years old.

Forty of the 637 patients (aged between 48 and 93 years old) had no known underlying health condition.