13-day-old baby becomes Britain’s youngest Covid-19 victim
A healthy 13-day-old baby has been confirmed as Britain’s youngest Covid-19 victim.
In spite of this, statistics as reported by Daily Mail online newspaper shows that a third of hospital trusts in England has not recorded a single fatality in a week.
Department of Health officials said the death toll now stood at 42,288. But the figure only includes lab-confirmed patients and did not take into account all suspected deaths.
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Reports said the unidentified 13-day-old had no known underlying conditions. It is however unclear how the baby — whose gender wasn’t revealed — caught the virus. A six-week-old baby was the previous youngest victim of the pandemic.
Government figures also revealed that the official number of diagnosed coronavirus cases had surpassed 300,000, with 1,218 new infections.
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An estimate from King’s College London’s COVID Symptom Tracker app suggests the number of new daily cases has plunged by a quarter in just a week to 3,391. And the Office for National Statistics predicted that around 3,800 people are catching the virus each day — a slight drop on the 4,500 last week.
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