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A further 6,914 coronavirus cases have been recorded in the UK in the past day, a drop from 194 yesterday.
The government also said that 59 other people who tested positive for COVID-19 had died, bringing the total to 42,202.
Seventy-one deaths were recorded on both Tuesday and Wednesday.
The death figures record people who died within 28 days of their first positive test, but COVID-19 may not be the actual cause of death in all cases.
Today’s positive test figure is 280 more than last Thursday.
The figures also show that as of Tuesday, there are 2,276 COVID-19 patients in the hospital and 332 people suffering from coronavirus on a ventilator as of Wednesday.
Infections in the UK remain much lower than the peak of the pandemic when some experts, including Chief Scientific Advisor Sir Patrick Vallance, suggest that there were around 100,000 new cases daily.
Only a fraction of the actual number of cases is believed to have been detected because testing was not being done in the community, as it is now.
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the measures were necessary because “in some parts of the country, the virus it is spreading rapidly “, with cases increasing to 268 per 100,000 people in Liverpool.
He said the spikes were “very localized” and that recent actions are having a “positive impact.”
“What we are doing to respond to these dire circumstances is beginning to work, so don’t stop,” he said in a Commons statement.
Yesterday, during a press conferencePrime Minister Boris Johnson urged people to continue to follow the coronavirus rules amid a “spike” in hospitalizations for the virus.
