Four more Covid-19 victims takes grim total to 234 in Northamptonshire's two acute hospitals

Four more Covid-19 victims takes grim total to 234 in Northamptonshire's two acute hospitals NHS officials today revealed four more Covid-19 patients have died at Northampton General Hospital.

The latest victims takes the grim total to 234 victims at the Northamptonshire's two acute hospitals in six weeks since the first deaths on March 16. Northamptonshire Telegraph

See also:

• Coronavirus outbreaks at fifty Northamptonshire care homes Daventry Express
• New coronavirus test at Northampton Hospital can provide result in under four hours ITV News
• A further 76 hospital patients die with coronavirus in the Anglia region ITV News
• Northampton nine-year-old raises hundreds of NHS by shaving 'pride and joy' head of hair Northampton Chronicle and Echo
• Woman arrested for allegedly trying to sell PPE equipment stolen from Northampton General Hospital online Northampton Chronicle and Echo
• No Covid-19 deaths announced by KGH for second day running Northamptonshire Telegraph

Are more black, Asian and minority ethnic people dying with Covid-19 than might be expected?

Are more black, Asian and minority ethnic people dying with Covid-19 than might be expected? Amid worrying recent media reports that a disproportionate number of BAME people are dying from Covid-19, Theo Georghiou and John Appleby take a look at how the demographics of the areas worst hit by the coronavirus can affect attempts to assess the extent of the problem. Nuffield Trust

See also:

• Dire warnings from care home sector borne out in the latest data The Health Foundation
• Understanding the data about COVID-19 related deaths The Health Foundation
• Nuffield Trust response to ONS weekly mortality stats Nuffield Trust
• Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 17 April 2020 Office for National Statistics

Further expansion of access to coronavirus testing helps protect the most vulnerable

Further expansion of access to coronavirus testing helps protect the most vulnerable Anyone in England with coronavirus symptoms who either has to leave home to go to work or is aged 65 and over will now be able to get tested. Department of Health and Social Care

See also:

• Detailed guide: Coronavirus (COVID-19): getting tested Department of Health and Social Care
• Guidance: Coronavirus (COVID-19): reuse of medicines in a care home or hospice Department of Health and Social Care
• Detailed guide: Number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and risk in the UK Department of Health and Social Care
• Support for staff who are pregnant NHS Employers
• NHS warning to seek help for cancer symptoms, as half of public report concerns with getting checked NHS England
• Coping during a crisis and collaborating across systems requires a different approach to team working Primary Care Commissioning
• Decisions about patients' care during COVID-19 must be made on an individual basis, says RCGP Royal College of General Practitioners

Coronavirus: Testing opens for millions more people in England

Coronavirus: Testing opens for millions more people in England Coronavirus testing is available for millions more people in England from today after the government loosened rules on who can apply.

Testing expanded last week to all key workers in England with symptoms and their households.

That has expanded to all care home residents and staff, people over 65 and those who must leave home to work. BBC News

See also:

• Coronavirus: What is the hidden health cost? BBC News
• Coronavirus: Thousands of cancer ops at 'Covid-free' hubs BBC News
• Coronavirus: Tests to be rolled out to care home staff and residents and over-65s BBC News
• Coronavirus: The hospice staff working through a pandemic BBC News
• Coronavirus UK: Death toll hits 21,731 but could be 55% higher The Daily Mail
• PPE shambles: Exposé claims ministers counted each glove INDIVIDUALLY instead of in pairs The Daily Mail
• Global coronavirus cases reaches 3 million milestone The Daily Mail
• Why UK's death toll could soon be the worst in Europe - in charts The Daily Telegraph
• Government must move faster to protect BAME doctors after COVID-19 deaths GPonline
• NHS contact-tracing app ready for use in three weeks, MPs told The Guardian
• Care home fatalities to be included in daily coronavirus death tolls The Guardian
• UK contact-tracing plans: an NHS app and an army of health staff The Guardian
• Almost 18,000 more people could die of cancer due to coronavirus, study shows The Independent
• Coronavirus: Cancer patients nearly three times more likely to die of Covid-19, study says The Independent
• Increasing concern over the effect the pandemic is having on NHS workers' mental health ITV News