UK announces record 381 more coronavirus deaths including 19-year-old with NO underlying health conditions taking British total to 1,789 fatalities
UK announces record 381 more coronavirus deaths including 19-year-old with NO underlying health conditions taking British total to 1,789 fatalities
- A massive 367 new coronavirus deaths have been recorded in England, the worst one-day rise so far
- Another 14 were added in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland taking the national total to 1,798
- England is the worst-hit country in the UK, with more than 1,600 deaths and 20,000 positive tests
- One of the fatalities announced today was a formerly healthy 19-year-old in England
- A new set of statistics launched today including deaths outside of hospitals and puts the death toll 24% higher
A record-breaking 390 coronavirus deaths have been announced in the UK today, taking the total to 1,798 fatalities.
It marks the darkest day so far for the NHS, which has seen patients dying by the dozen in hospitals in every corner of the country.
And the figure is more than twice as high as it was yesterday, when only 180 new fatalities were announced.
One of today's victims was just 19 years old and didn't have any other health conditions, making them the UK's youngest otherwise-healthy patient to have died.
England is at the centre of Britain's crisis and 1,651 people there have died after testing positive for COVID-19 in a hospital. Meanwhile more than 60 people have died in both Scotland and Wales, plus around 30 in Northern Ireland.
Today's development comes after government statisticians revealed this morning that the true death toll may be 24 per cent higher when people who died outside of NHS hospitals are added in to the count.
Other developments in the UK's crisis include:
- Utility companies warned there is a risk staff shortages will lead to power cuts and have written to vulnerable customers to make sure they're prepared
- Statistics have revealed the early coronavirus deaths in the UK were overwhelmingly elderly and male, with over-85s making up 47% of all fatalities
- Hundreds of shoppers sparked fury in Bristol after being spotted buying plants and headphones on leisurely shopping trips despite a Government lockdown
- Foreign NHS staff will receive automatic visa extensions from the Government to enable them to stay in the UK fighting the coronavirus outbreak
- London, Sheffield, Birmingham and Slough have the highest rates of coronavirus infections in the UK, per 100,000 people, according to official data
- NHS Blood and Transplant has said it is rejecting organ transplants from donors infected with the coronavirus
