By Captain Sir Tom Moore has been admitted to hospital with Coronavirus
In a tweet from his official account, his daughter said he tested positive last week and was taken to hospital today for help with his breathing.
He is not in intensive care.
It comes as 169, 714 people tested positive in the last seven days.
A further 563 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, new figures confirm.
It brings the total number of confirmed deaths reported in hospitals to 71,789, NHS England said as of today.
Patients were aged between 24 and 99. All except 29, aged between 34 and 97, had known underlying health conditions.
The deaths were between December 14 and January 30.
It brings the total number of Covid positive cases in the UK to 3,817,176.
