NHS England said the youngest victim had no underlying health conditions (Picture: PA)

A healthy 14-year-old child is among the latest to die from coronavirus in the UK.

It comes as 601 more deaths were announced bringing the national total up to 22,370. So far there have been 10 confirmed deaths in England of Covid-19 patients aged 0 to 19.

NHS England said that out of the 445 deaths it recorded today, 27 patients aged 14 to 94 had no underlying health conditions.

Scotland reported 83 deaths, while 73 were recorded in Wales. Northern Ireland has not yet released its figures. A total of 22,370 is calculated by combining the latest hospital deaths from England (19,740), Scotland (1,415), Wales (886), and Northern Ireland (329, as of yesterday).


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The latest UK figures based on hospital deaths (Picture: Metro.co.uk)

Out of the the 19,740 confirmed hospital deaths in England, 10,297 (52%) have been people aged 80 and over while 7,703 (39%) were 60-79.



A further 1,585 (8%) were aged 40-59, and 145 (1%) were bewtween 20 and 39 years old.

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The Government is due to announce a significantly higher official toll after the Health Secretary announced deaths in care homes would be included in the Department of Health’s daily update.

Health organisations have been calling for the numbers outside hospitals to be published every day, while experts on Tuesday said they could not say the peak in care homes has been reached yet.

Speaking at yesterday’s Downing Street press conference Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: ‘The proportion of coronavirus deaths in care homes is around a sixth of the total, which is just below what we see in normal times.

‘I want to make sure that we bring as much transparency as possible to important information like this, so from tomorrow we will be publishing not just the number of deaths in hospital each day, but the number of deaths in care homes and in the community too.’

While single-day figures for hospitals in have been dropping in Britain, the overall tall is set to rocket when Office for National Statics and Care Quality Commission (CQC) data on care homes is accounted for later today.

Care providers said it is clear the ‘epicentre of this crisis is in care homes’ and that the sector is ‘sadly the most affected area of society in terms of deaths from Covid-19’.

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