Britain announces 202 more Covid-19 deaths in the lowest increase on a Friday since March 20, taking the UK’s total number of victims to 41,481
Britain’s coronavirus death toll rose by 202 today in the lowest Friday jump in 12 weeks, taking the UK’s total victims to 41,481.
More than 292,000 people in Britain have now tested positive for the virus, after a further 1,541 patients were diagnosed in the last 24 hours.
Today’s death figure marks the smallest Friday rise since March 20, three days before the country went into lockdown, when there were just 36 coronavirus fatalities.
In another massive boost for the UK’s fight against Covid-19, the Office for National Statistics said today it thinks just 33,000 Britons currently have the disease.
The data, based on testing of almost 20,000 people in the community, shows the number of people with the virus outside of hospitals and care homes is tumbling.
When hospital and care home cases, of which more than a thousand are still being diagnosed every day, are included the total is higher, but the virus is fading among members of the public.
In other coronavirus developments today:
The head of the UK’s largest teaching union has been blasted for describing the Government’s primary school U-turn, which will mean thousands of children missing out on lessons, as a ‘win’;
An interactive graphic revealed London was still the worst-hit area in the UK but death rates northern regions are catching up;
The Office for National Statistics estimates just 33,000 people in the community are infected with Covid based on surveillance studies.
