Coronavirus: Further death confirmed in Shropshire as UK toll reaches 12,868
Another coronavirus patient death has been confirmed at Shropshire's hospitals.
The death of the person, who was in the care of Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Hospital Trust (SaTH), takes the number to have died at county hospitals to 53 – 51 at SaTH and two at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital near Oswestry.
A total of 12,868 people have now died in hospitals with the virus in the UK.
The announcement from NHS England on Thursday was that a further 651 people have died in England with the virus.
Public Health Wales confirmed another 60 people had died in the country.
NHS England said that 20 of the 651 patients, the youngest of which was 20, had no known underlying health condition.
The news comes as a new web app has been released to allow frontline health workers to report shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE).
Recently launched Frontline.Live is being used by NHS staff and other essential workers to highlight where items such as masks, gowns and hand sanitiser are needed.
Workers can tweet which items they need, their work postcode and use the hashtag #FrontlineMap, or an online form if they wish to remain anonymous, with the requests then plotted on an interactive map which can be viewed by policymakers and suppliers.
In other news, a 106-year-old woman thought to be Britain’s oldest patient to recover from coronavirus has been discharged from Birmingham’s City Hospital.
Connie Titchen, from Birmingham, was discharged from City Hospital this week after battling Covid-19 for three weeks.
The great-grandmother of eight, who was born in September 1913, was admitted to the hospital in March with suspected pneumonia and was diagnosed with coronavirus soon afterwards.
Meanwhile, as fears mount for domestic abuse victims amid the Covid-19 lockdown, the Victims Commissioner has said supermarket workers should be trained to recognise code words from victims whose only opportunity to seek help may be during the weekly shop.
While the school gates used to be a place where women could speak out, the coronavirus lockdown has reduced opportunities to get support, and some women may only be leaving the home to visit shops or pharmacies.
Victims Commissioner Dame Vera Baird said the Government must adapt to the new normal brought on by Covid-19, by providing a “system of rescue” in the places where victims are most likely to frequent during the crisis.
The US president accused the international body of “severely mismanaging and covering up” the spread of the virus.
But Downing Street said the organisation was playing an important role in tackling the spread of the virus, and scientists hit out at the “short-sighted” move.
Mr Trump said his administration would suspend funding of up to £400 million (500 million US dollars) a year for the organisation.
He said US taxpayers are the largest contributors to the WHO, dwarfing the amount paid by China.
