ANOTHER two patients in Oxfordshire have died after testing positive for the coronavirus.

The figure, released by NHS England this afternoon, brings the total deaths in the county to 45 as of 5pm on Tuesday.

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In England a further 828 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died.

This takes the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 6,483.

Patients were aged between 22 and 103 years old, with 46 of the 828 patients (aged between 35 and 96 years old) having no known underlying health condition.