ANOTHER 23 patients have died at Oxfordshire's hospitals as the county's death toll reaches at least 120.

A further 20 deaths were confirmed at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) on Saturday, with three more announced today.

The trust runs the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre as well as Banbury's Horton General Hospital.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the county's community hospitals, has also recorded 19 deaths, though none were in the last two days.

As the trust also runs services outside Oxfordshire it is not possible to know how many were in the county.

Though cases were announced over the weekend this is to do with when they were recorded, not necessarily when they took place.

OUH's announced deaths on Saturday, for instance, took place between April 13 and April 23.

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Confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the county went up by 44 today, with the total rising to 1,413 from 1,369.

Nationally, as of 9am 152,840 people have tested positive for the virus, and as of 5pm on Saturday 20,742 have died in the UK's hospitals with coronavirus, an increase of 413.

This is the lowest daily rise since the end of March.

Stephen Powis, the medical director of NHS England, said at the daily government briefing yesterday there was 'encouraging' data suggesting that hospitals admissions were down.

He said: “We now have a very definite trend in the reduced number of people in hospitals with Covid-19."

Globally, confirmed cases of the virus had almost reached three million as of this afternoon, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking the pandemic since January via an online map.

More than 900,000 of cases are in the US, which also has more than 53,000 deaths.