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Matt Hancock says 19 NHS workers have died in coronavirus outbreak so far

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Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 19 NHS workers have died in the coronavirus outbreak so far. He announced the toll a day after he was pressed to reveal how many frontline workers had lost their lives in the fight against Covid-19.

At Friday's afternoon briefing, Mr Hancock deferred to England's Chief Nursing Officer Ruth May, who declined to give a figure.

She told reporters: "It would be inappropriate for me right now to go into listing them and numbering them because we haven't got necessarily all of the position across England with all of the people's families giving us permission to talk about them." Dame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said on Saturday that the staff who are dying aren't the ones

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