For the latest news from in and around Wigan sign up to the MyWigan newsletter here One more person has died in hospital in Greater Manchester after contracting coronavirus.
The patient died at the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust on Friday. It takes the death toll from the virus in our region's hospitals to 5,905.
Each day the NHS in England publishes the number of deaths recorded by each hospital trust in the last 24-hour period. These are deaths where the person had tested positive for the virus or where COVID-19 was mentioned on their death certificate.
NHS England's daily figures sometimes include previously uncounted deaths that took place several days - or even weeks ago. They do not include deaths in care homes or