Sonia Partridge, 35, died in hospital as England registers highest death rate in a decade
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Tributes have been paid to a mother of 13 who died from the coronavirus as fresh data showed England has witnessed its highest death rate in over a decade due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sonia Partridge, 35, died at the University Hospital of North Tees in the early hours of Tuesday morning, leaving her partner, Kerry Ann Partridge, without “the backbone of our family” and “my life for the last 11 years”.
