Coronavirus
181 more people have died of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the sharpest increase in the UK to date.
Official figures from Public Health England show that as of 9am March 27, a total of 113,777 have been tested, of those, 99,198 were negative, and 14,579 tested positive.
As of 5pm on March 26, 759 people in the UK have died.
135 patients have recovered.
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