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29 Mar 2020

 ‘Up to 6 months’ before life returns to normal: UK government on coronavirus measures

The the official death toll in UK hospitals reached 1,228 today – a rise of 209. But it was a smaller increase than the one we saw yesterday.

The NHS also announced the first confirmed death of a frontline health worker who had tested positive for the coronavirus – a 55-year-old doctor working in the Midlands.