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Gran, 67, could be first UK Covid-19 death as family think she caught virus in December

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A grandmother, aged 67, may have been the first person to die in the UK from coronavirus - with her family urging a coroner to investigate.

Sally Mayer, from Newchapel, in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, suffered with a bad cough and breathlessness during a hospital stay in December before passing away on January 10.

Her cause of death was put down as a pulmonary embolism, weeks before the deadly bug spread across the UK, reports StokeonTrentLive.

The first recorded death linked to Covid-19 came later that month, and North Staffordshire coroner Emma Serrano agreed to probe the pensioner's case at a pre-inquest review on Wednesday.

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