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- Covid-19 related deaths as of 17 April in England and Wales were 35% higher than the government’s hospital death figure. Details below.
- The Scottish government has recommended that people cover their faces with cloth garments when in public spaces. Dr John Lee weighs up the benefits of masks on Coffee House.
- A minute’s silence for key workers who have died during the Covid-19 outbreak was held this morning at 11 a.m.
- The families of NHS staff who have died of coronavirus will be given £60,000.
- Hospitals will restart non-Covid-19 services from today on a hospital-to-hospital basis.
- Whitehall officials failed to stock up on any gowns, visors, swabs or body bags as part of routine pandemic preparations.
- GPs nationwide have been placed on high alert after a rise in the number of children suffering from a rare and deadly inflammatory disease that could be linked to coronavirus.
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