Coronavirus: Three more patients die at Shropshire hospitals - taking death toll to 43
Another three people have died at Shropshire hospitals with coronavirus.
NHS England has confirmed that a further three patients have died at Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust.
It takes the total to have died at the trust, and to have tested positive for Covid-19, to 41 – with four more deaths since Friday.
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Two patients have also died at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital near Oswestry, with one announced on Saturday.
It means total of 43 people have now died in the county's hospitals with the virus.
The UK total of people to have died in hospitals has now passed 10,000 and has reached 10,621.
NHS England announced another 657 people had died and Public Health Wales confirmed another 18 people had died.
NHS England said that 42 of the 657 patients had no known underlying health condition – the youngest of which was 30.
Public Health Wales confirmed 75 positive tests for patients in Powys, however the organisation has said that its figures do not include Powys patients tested in England, so the figure could be considerably higher.
The news comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from hospital a week after being admitted with persistent coronavirus symptoms.
But Downing Street said he would not be returning to work immediately on doctors’ orders and would instead head to his country residence in Buckinghamshire to recuperate.
In other news, comedic actor Tim Brooke-Taylor has died at the age of 79 after contracting coronavirus.
The Goodies creator died with Covid-19 after a lengthy and successful comedy career.
Comedians and TV stars have paid tribute to him, with Stephen Fry describing the news of his death as 'devastating'.
But leaders in intensive care medicine and anaesthetics also warned that people should obey social distancing rules in order to reduce the burden on NHS resources.
Their comments come amid reports key medicines at some intensive care units were in short supply.
Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg has insisted MPs will return on April 21, the date agreed before the Easter recess.
MPs have been offered an additional £10,000 each by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) – the body that audits expenses of those in the Commons – to pay for increased costs as they and their staff move to working from home during the Covid-19 lockdown.
But some have expressed distaste at the decision to give MPs more funding while employees in the UK face being furloughed at 80% pay and others have lost their jobs due to the impact of coronavirus.
