Coronavirus: Covid-19 cases in UK rise to 590 as two more patients die
THE number of coronavirus cases across the UK has risen above 500.
Public Health England have announced that as of 9am on Thursday a total of 590 people have tested positive for Covid-19.
A total of 29,764 people have been tested across the country and 29,174 have come back negative.
Three Leicester City players are in self-isolation after showing symptoms of coronavirus.
Two more people have died after being diagnosed with the virus bringing the UK total to 10.
In a statement, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust said: ‘We can confirm that, sadly, an 89-year-old patient who was very unwell with underlying health conditions has passed away at Charing Cross Hospital.
‘The patient had tested positive for coronavirus. Our thoughts and condolences are with the patient's family.’
Tony Chambers, interim chief executive, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, said another patient had died at Queen's hospital.
He said: ‘We can confirm that a patient, who was in her sixties, and who tested positive for Covid-19 has sadly died at Queen's hospital. She had been very unwell with significant other health conditions.
‘Our thoughts and condolences are with the patient's family at what is undoubtedly a very distressing time.
‘We ask that the family's privacy is respected’.