Coronavirus: Latest updates as Shropshire hospitals death toll rises to 58
Read the coronavirus updates from across Shropshire, Mid Wales and beyond on April 17.
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Three more people were confirmed to have died at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, while the first death at Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust was announced. This brought the total death toll at the county's hospitals to 58.
The death toll across the UK increased by 847 to 14,576.
Meanwhile doctors and nurses will be asked to work without full-length gowns and to reuse items when treating coronavirus patients ahead of expected shortages of protective garments.
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