On Wednesday 1st April, UK recorded the highest increase in the number of day-to-day deaths owing to Coronavirus. Following Italy’s epidemic curve, the UK death toll rose by 563 to 2,352, an increase of 31% on the total of 1,789 deaths reported the day before.
According to the Department of Health and Social Care as of 9am on 1 April, a total of 152,979 people had been tested of whom 29,474 were diagnosed as positive – an increase of 4,324 on the previous day. The increasing numbers however, highlight that the virus is not invisible to young people. Yesterday, a 13-year-old boy passed away without having any other underlining health conditions.
Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, from Brixton in south London, died in King's College Hospital on 30th March. He is thought to be the youngest person to have died with the virus in the UK.
Mark Stephenson, college director at Madinah College, in south-west London, where Ismail's sister works as a teacher, has set up a fundraiser to raise money for the funeral costs.
The fundraising page reads that Ismail died "without any family members close by due to the highly infectious nature of Covid-19".
