CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND - MAY 21: Francesca Nice, PHD Research Associate prepares blood samples from coronavirus patients for analysis as part of the TACTIC-R trial, in the Blood Processing Lab in the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease,on May 21, 2020 in Cambridge, England. The new trial known as TACTIC-R is testing whether existing drugs will help prevent the body's immune system from overreacting, which scientists hope could prevent organ failure and death in COVID-19 patients. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth-Pool/Getty Images)
Across the country a further 121 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 25,387.
The figures could be much higher, as they does not include deaths in care homes or the community.
Patients were aged between 41 and 98 years old. Three of the 121 patients (aged between 50 and 91) had no known underlying health condition.
Their families have been informed.
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