Coronavirus: Updates as further 44 people die in hospitals across the region
Read today's coronavirus updates from across the Black Country, Staffordshire and beyond.
We brought you the latest as new research suggests a significant number of deaths from coronavirus are happening in care homes.
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The worldwide number of cases is nearly at two million, while in the UK more than 12,000 people have died in hospitals alone including more than 1,000 here in the Black Country, Birmingham and Staffordshire.
The local death figures released each day only include hospital deaths - leading to concerns from Age UK that the elderly are being "airbrushed" out of the death toll.
Today it emerged a further 44 people have been confirmed to have died in hospitals in the Black Country, Birmingham and Staffordshire.
A total of 12,107 people who tested positive for coronavirus have now died in UK hospitals.
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