Coronavirus: What we know about the UK victims

Twenty one people in the UK have died after testing positive for coronavirus since the start of the outbreak.

On Saturday, 10 deaths were announced as it was revealed a total of 1,140 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 so far.

Here, Sky News looks at what we know about the UK victims.

NHS England issued statements on Saturday on behalf of nine hospital trusts where patients with coronavirus had died.

Barts Health NHS Trust, in London, said two people had died after testing positive for the virus but did not reveal any further details of the patients.

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust said a man in his late 70s who “tested positive for COVID-19” had died.

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust said a man in his mid-80s, being cared for at City Hospital, had died.

He had underlying health conditions and his family has been informed, the trust added.

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust said a man in his 80s, being treated at New Cross Hospital, had died.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said a man being cared for at Leicester Royal Infirmary had died. He was in his 80s.

Jacqueline Totterdell, chief executive of St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in south London, said a man in his 90s with “significant other health conditions” had died after testing positive for COVID-19.

The patient had been “extremely unwell”, Ms Totterdell added.

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust said a man in his 80s had died at North Middlesex University Hospital in north London.

Dame Jacqueline Docherty, chief executive of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust said a man in his 60s had died at Northwick Park Hospital.

The patient had “underlying health conditions”, she added.

Dr Susan Gilby, chief executive of Countess of Chester Hospital, confirmed a man who had tested positive for COVID-19 had died.

“The patient was in his 80s and had underlying health conditions,” she added.

Here is what we know about previous deaths among people who tested positive.

The first patient to die in the UK was a woman in her 70s who had been “in and out of hospital for non-coronavirus reasons”, the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading said on 5 March.

She caught the virus in Britain.

A man in his early 80s with underlying health conditions died at Milton Keynes Hospital.

Hospital staff who nursed him subsequently went into isolation.

A man in his 60s who had recently returned from Italy was the third person to die in the UK.

Professor Chris Whitty said the patient had “significant underlying health conditions” and was being treated at North Manchester General Hospital.

A woman in her 70s, who also had underlying health conditions and was treated in a Wolverhampton hospital, died too.

She is believed to have caught the virus in Britain.

A patient in their 70s with a number of “significant and long-term health conditions” died at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, south London.

A sixth person died at Watford General Hospital. West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust said the man was in his early 80s.

A patient aged in their 70s, who had underlying health conditions, died in Dudley in the West Midlands after contracting COVID-19.

An elderly patient from Nuneaton, who was being treated for a number of serious underlying health conditions, died at the George Eliot Hospital in Warwickshire.

A further two deaths happened in London.

An 89-year-old who was “very unwell with underlying health conditions” died at Charing Cross Hospital in west London, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust confirmed.

And a woman in her 60s who had been “very unwell with significant other health conditions” died at Queen’s Hospital in east London, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust said.

There has also been one death in Scotland.

Chief Medical Officer Catherine Calderwood said the patient was “an older person who had underlying health conditions”.

They died in a hospital covered by NHS Lothian, which includes Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian.

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