75-year-old woman becomes the first coronavirus fatality
A woman in her 70s becomes the first person in the UK to die after testing positive for coronavirus at the Royal Berkshire NHS Trust said the patient had been “in and out of the hospital for non-coronavirus reasons”. She was admitted and tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday. This rises the UK people diagnosed with the virus reached 116. The UK cases include 105 patients in England, six in Scotland, three in Northern Ireland and two in Wales.
She is not thought to have been abroad recently, and officials are now trying to trace the people she was in contact with.
New cases of coronavirus in Wuhan, the centre of China’s coronavirus epidemic could drop to zero by the end of the month according to Zhang Boli of China’s national health commission and top panel officials battling the illness.
“I estimate that by the end of April 2020, expect for Hubei, the rest of the country can basically take off their face masks and resume normal life,” Zhang Boli told reporters. Residents of Wuhan and surrounding Hubei province have been on lockout and residents confined to their homes for over a month after transport links with neighbouring provinces were closed and private cars banned from streets. Wuhan had only 131 new cases yesterday, with just 8 cases found elsewhere in China.
California has imposed a state-wide emergency along with the states of Washington and Florida, has the largest infected patients among 13 states that have reported the outbreak.
The number of coronavirus cases in the UK has now reached 163, out of 20, 338 people had been tested, with a jump of 48 cases since Thursday he government confirmed. The number of confirmed cases comprises 147 cases in England, 11 in Scotland, 3 in Northern Ireland and two in Wales.
Samples taken from an 80-year-old man who died at Milton Keynes Hospital are currently being investigated for coronavirus.
Italian official say the number of deaths from Covid-19 rises §197 and total number of coronavirus rises to 4636.
The FTSE 100 has fallen 3.62 poer cent wiping of £61bn since the coronavirus crisis began.