A hundred coronavirus patients have been discharged from Swindon's Great Western Hospital. 

Kevin McNamara, the hospital's chief executive, shared the news over Twitter.

He said: "This week we saw our 100th Covid patient discharged from hospital to continue their onward recovery. This can get lost in all the other news around covid so worth remembering. 

"It's a great credit to all the teams clinical and non-clinical."

Since the pandemic began more than 70 people who have tested positive for coronavirus have died at GWH. Across Swindon and Wiltshire there have been 707 confirmed cases of the virus.