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A patient has died from coronavirus at a United Lincolnshire Health NHS Trust hospital, NHS England has revealed.

In figures released today, Friday, March 27, the authority said 168 people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in England have died.

That means that as of 5pm on March 26, the number of coronavirus related deaths in England stands at 689.

NHS England has said that the 168 patients were all aged between 29 and 98 years old and all but four patients (aged between 82 and 91 years old) had underlying health conditions.

The trust said one of those was a patient of ULHT and died yesterday, Thursday, March 26.

ULHT has confirmed it was a woman, who was in her 80s, who has died.

However, the trust has said it will not be revealing whether she was being cared for at Lincoln County Hospital, Boston Pilgrim Hospital or Grantham and District Hospital.

A spokesperson for ULHT said: “Sadly we can confirm that a woman who was being cared for at one of our hospitals, and had tested positive for COVID-19, has died.

“The patient, who passed away yesterday, was in her eighties and had underlying health conditions.



“Her family has been informed and our thoughts and condolences are with them at this difficult and distressing time.”

It comes as figures released today, Friday, March 27 by Public Health England show 14,543 have been diagnosed with coronavirus.

Among those to have tested positive are British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock

The figures that are right as of 5pm on 26 March 26 2020, show 759 patients in the UK have died after testing positive for Covid-19.

A total of 113,777 people have been tested, of which 99,234 were confirmed negative.

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