A FURTHER four people have died in Somerset within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19.

The fatalities included two people in South Somerset and one each in Somerset West and Taunton and Mendip.

The total number of people to died in the county council area after contracting the virus has risen to 193.

Of those deaths, 51 were in South Somerset; 46 in SWT; 65 in Sedgemoor; and 31 in Mendip.