Second coronavirus patient dies at York Hospital

Another patient has died at York Hospital after falling ill with coronavirus – the second in two days.

The person died yesterday (Wednesday, 25 March), following the death the day before of a patient in their 90s.

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has confirmed the death of a patient with confirmed Covid-19 but wasn’t able to give any more details at this stage.

There are 9,529 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, and there have been a total of 463 deaths.

In the figures compiled from yesterday, there were 14 confirmed cases in York, and 45 in North Yorkshire.