Summary

  • All the latest from Beds, Bucks, Cambs, Essex, Herts, Norfolk, Northants and Suffolk

  • The number of Covid-19 deaths in the region has reached 2,450

  • One minute silence takes place for key workers who have died

  • Boxing champ Anthony Joshua donates sportswear to his birth hospital

  • Police Federation wants compulsory jail sentences for spitters and coughers

Live Reporting

Alex Pope and Pete Cooper

  1. Coronavirus tests continue in the East

    BBC Look East

    The total number of laboratory confirmed cases in the UK currently stands at 157,149, including tests carried out by commercial partners, when the figures were released by the government on Monday afternoon.

    The daily total number of lab-confirmed UK cases is 4,310.

    In the East, 11,760 people have tested positive to coronavirus.

  2. Virus survivor, 98, thankful for 'jolly good' care

    Doug Moore praised the hospital's "excellent" staff and even had a "jolly good time" in their care.

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  3. Number of new coronavirus deaths continues to drop in East

    Matt Precey
    BBC Look East

    Covid-19 deaths statistics, cumulative for Monday, 27 April, 2020

    The latest figures to show the number of people who have died in the previous day from Covid-19 were released by the government on Monday afternoon.

    The daily increase of 41 deaths in hospitals in the East of England is the lowest rise since we started collating them at the beginning of April.

    The total number of deaths at the region's hospitals is now 2,450.

    • Anglian Community, Fryatt Hospital, Harwich:1
    • Basildon and Thurrock: 5
    • East and North Hertfordshire: 1
    • Colchester and Ipswich: 9
    • James Paget, Gorleston: 3
    • Mid Essex, Chelmsford, Maldon and Braintree: 2
    • Milton Keynes: 1
    • Norfolk and Norwich: 2
    • North West Anglia, Peterborough and Hinchingbrooke: 5
    • Northampton General: 7
    • West Hertfordshire Hospitals: 4
    • West Suffolk: 1

    Across the UK, the total number of Covid-19-associated deaths in hospitals currently stands at 21,092.

  4. Latitude Festival becomes latest lockdown casualty

    Organisers of the three day festival, which began in 2006, say it will return in July 2021.

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    Alex Pope
    BBC News Online

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