THERE are between 'one and four' cases in coronavirus in Somerset, Public Health England has confirmed.
An update given on Friday (March 6) states that as of 9am, March 6, a total of 20,338 people in the UK had been tested for coronavirus, and of these 20,175 were confirmed negative and 163 have been confirmed as positive.
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One patient who tested positive for COVID-19 has died.
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The government has now roughly broken down these positive cases by local authority, and states that there are 'one to four' confirmed cases in Somerset.
The breakdown also states that there are seven confirmed cases of coronavirus in neighbouring Devon.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a new strain of coronavirus first identified in Wuhan City, China in December 2019.
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