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First inquests into UK coronavirus deaths hear patients caught virus after falls

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The first inquests into the deaths of patients from coronavirus have heard how one victim would not have caught the virus if she had not been admitted following a fall.

Mary Smith, 84, of Dudley, was admitted to Russells Hall Hospital in the Black Country town on March 27 after a fall and died on April 6 after testing positive for coronavirus.

Black Country coroner Zafar Siddique said "if it wasn't for the fall" she would not have picked up the killer virus in hospital and died.

Mr Siddique has overseen the first inquests to be held into victims of the deadly bug which has plunged the UK into lockdown and economic crisis.

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