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Coronavirus: Latest updates as UK death toll reaches 12,868

See coronavirus updates from across Shropshire, Mid Wales and beyond from April 15.

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We brought you the latest as the UK death toll increased by 761 to 12,868 today and one more patient death was confirmed at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust,

It means the total death toll in the county is now 53.

Meanwhile it was revealed that doctors are being forced to wash personal protective equipment to reuse it and are dipping their hands in a bucket of steriliser because hand gel has run out.

Back in Shropshire, SaTH announced its urgent care centres in Shrewsbury and Telford are moving to allow the county's main hospitals to focus on the coronavirus battle.

And Captain Tom Moore has inspired the country by raising millions of pounds for the NHS by walking 100 lengths of his garden at the sprightly age of 99.

See the updates here:

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