The number of deaths of patients with Covid-19 at Southport Hospital and Ormskirk Hospital has risen to 99.
Southport & NHS Hospitals Trust reported six more deaths today.
The Trust this week paid tribute to nurse Josephine Peter, who died at the hospital on Saturday after testing positive for the disease. She left behind her husband, Thabo Peter, her two children, Bongani and Buhle, a granddaughter, five sisters and one brother.
Her husband described ‘Manini’ as his ‘heroine’.
Over £10,000 has now been raised through a GoFundMe page in her memory, to pay for her funeral costs and to repatriate her body to her home in South Africa.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Sefton has now risen to 724 as people in Southport and across the borough are being urged to stay home and save lives this weekend.
During the recent warm weather, there has been an increase in people visiting our local beaches, parks and other greenspaces.
And now everyone is urged to keep their distance to protect their own health – and everyone else’s.
Cllr Ian Moncur, Sefton Council’s Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, said: “Once again, we are stressing the need for people to stay local and not to travel to parks, beaches and other open spaces this weekend and every day, for the sake of their own health and in the interest of everybody else’s health.
“Of course, we want people to get their daily session of exercise, and enjoy some fresh air and sunshine locally but there is no excuse for anyone to ignore the need to maintain social distancing and put themselves and others in danger.
“Our parks and our coastline will still be there when Covid-19 has gone but I’m seriously concerned that if people ignore these rules that have been designed to protect them, some of them won’t.”
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