The UK’s Sky News reported that deaths in British hospitals from patients who tested positive for Covid-19 in one day had risen to a record high, of 938.
The number of #coronavirus-related deaths in the United Kingdom has risen to 7,097, according to official statistics released by the Department of Health and Social Care.
It is the largest daily increase recorded so far.
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The figure will likely be higher when those who died outside of British hospitals, or without having earlier tested positive for Covid-19, are factored in at a later date.