THE FIRST patients to be successfully treated for COVID-19 at London’s NHS Nightingale Hospital have been discharged.
But the Midlands has now become the UK’s newest ‘hot spot’ for coronavirus, after 92 patients died in hospitals across the region in the past 24 hours.
The latest UK figures showed that coronavirus deaths increased by 596 to 16,060 since yesterday.
The figures include only people who have died in hospitals around the UK, and do not cover those who died at home or in care homes or hospices.
A study has estimated that deaths in care homes alone could be as high as 6,000.
The NCF, which represents not-for-profit care providers, found there has been 4,040 coronavirus-related deaths in care homes which have not yet been included in official figures, bringing the UK’s total death toll to at least 20,000.
Yesterday, the number of deaths increased by 888 on Friday’s toll, which saw 847 deaths.
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