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Coronavirus in east London / Essex live: 56 more deaths at Barts and BHRUT hospitals

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  • Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is deputising for the Prime Minister, will chair a Cobra emergency committee on Thursday afternoon to discuss the lockdown measures with leaders of the devolved nations.
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  • No decision is expected to be made at that meeting in Boris Johnson's absence, with key figures in the response instead discussing how it will be resolved next week.
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  • The Prime Minister, who is currently in intensive care in hospital, is receiving just the "standard oxygen treatment" and "breathing without any other assistance", Downing Street says.
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  • The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Essex is now 1,081.
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  • Meanwhile, Waltham Forest now has 443 confirmed cases - 50 more than yesterday's figure. In Redbridge, the overall number of cases stands at 366 - an increase of 47.
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  • At Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, there were nine new deaths announced today (although it does not mean the deaths happened in the last 24 hours). This brings the total to 90.
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  • At Barts Health Trust - which runs Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone - there have been 35 more deaths, bringing the total to 189. And at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust (BHRUT), there have been 21 more deaths, bringing the total to 98.
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  • More than 7,000 hospital patients in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus have died, the Department for Health confirmed yesterday
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  • The death toll in the UK rose to 7,097, with 828 further deaths recorded in England.
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