Coronavirus deaths in the UK almost double overnight to 21 after another 10 patients who tested positive for the virus die, NHS England confirms
Some ten more people in the UK have died in the past 24 hours as a result of the coronavirus, bringing the country’s total to 21.
The dramatic rise in deaths comes as Boris Johnson made the decision to ban all mass gatherings and sports events from next weekend.
Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, said the ten who died ‘were in the at-risk groups’.
The total number of cases in the UK leapt from 820 this morning to 1,140 this afternoon.
Travellers are pictured wearing masks at London Victoria station this morning – commuters around the country said train stations, carriages and car parks seemed deserted compared to normal
People get swabbed at a drive-through coronavirus testing station set up near a branch of KFC in Wolverhampton. People who think they might have the virus have been told to avoid the city’s hospital
A man in his late 70s died in Buckinghamshire and a spokesman for Wycombe Hospital said he had underlying health conditions.
In Birmingham, a man in his mid 80s with underlying health conditions died, as did another man in Wolverhampton and one in Leicester.
Two people died in London from the virus but Barts Health Trust hasn’t revealed their ages or whether they had any underlying conditions.
In Leeds, a man in his 90s who had ‘significant other health conditions’, died from the virus and a man in his 80s died in Middlesex.
A man in his 60s died at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow and a man in his 80s with underlying health conditions died in Chester.