The medical director at Nottingham's hospitals has confirmed more patients have died having tested positive for the Covid-19 virus.
Today (Tuesday, April 21) it was confirmed a further six people had died between April 18-20.
The increase takes the death toll in both the Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital to 150 people.
Dr Keith Girling, Medical Director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “Sadly we can confirm that a further six patients have died having tested positive for COVID-19. Regrettably that means that 150 Covid-19 positive patients we were caring for have sadly died since the beginning of March.”
“The patients were aged between 65 and 94, and died between the 18 and 20 of April.”
“The families have been informed and our thoughts and condolences are with them at this difficult and distressing time.”
In the UK, a total of 16,509 people have died in hospital having tested positive for the virus, but the figure will be higher when taking into account deaths outside a hospital setting.
There have been 124,743 lab-confirmed cases of the virus, including 386 in Nottingham and 868 in Nottinghamshire.
