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The UK has seen its biggest daily spike in deaths from coronavirus with 89, taking the nationwide total to 424.

The Department for Health and Social Care announced the latest figures on the first day of a nationwide lockdown to counter COVID-19, with the vast majority of new deaths coming in England.

Eighty-three of the coronavirus fatalities confirmed on Tuesday were in England, with two in Scotland, one in Wales, and three in Northern Ireland.

The total of 89 is up from 55 deaths announced across the whole of the UK on Monday.

The latest patients to die in England were aged between 33 and 103 years old and were in vulnerable groups or had underlying conditions, NHS England said.

Twenty-one of the deaths appeared to have come at London North University Healthcare NHS Trust, which just last week declared a critical incident at its Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow after an upswing in coronavirus patients saw it run out of intensive care beds.

Sky News’ health correspondent Ashish Joshi said that the trust’s deaths were split between Northwick Park Hospital and Ealing Hospital, with the trust expected to clarify its numbers in a statement later.

“It is significant – there are more deaths at these trusts than anywhere else in the country,” Joshi added.

“They do have a specialist centre for infectious diseases; whether that has anything to do with the number of COVID-19 cases they are seeing, which could account for the number of deaths, we will have to wait to see if there is an explanation from the trust on that.”

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the UK now stands at 8,077, up 1,427 from 6,650 on Monday.