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The number of coronavirus patients dying in UK hospitals has risen by 151.
Health authorities today announced the figure, which includes 122 deaths in England, 19 in Wales, three in Scotland and seven in Northern Ireland.
A week ago, 137 hospital deaths were confirmed, while a fortnight ago that figure was 90.
A month ago, on October 8, health authorities said that 58 people had died after contracting Covid-19.
In the last 24 hours, the number of confirmed cases exceeded 50 million, while the global death toll stands at around 1.25 million.
The most recent data from the Department of Health puts the death toll in all settings at 48,888, although the virus has been mentioned at more than 62,000 since the start of the pandemic.
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Earlier today, the Prime Minister of Wales called on the four nations of the United Kingdom to work together and find a unique approach.
Mark Drakeford said that Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove had promised a four-nation meeting next week so that country leaders can “pool ideas, plan together and have a common approach for the Christmas season.”
His comments come as Wales prepares to emerge from a 17-day firewall lockdown on Monday, while England continues on its month-long lockdown ending in early December.
“I really hope the meeting will materialize,” Drakeford told Sophie Ridge on Sky News Sunday.
On whether he wanted to see families reunite over Christmas, he said: “The restrictions that people have had to live with are incredibly difficult and demanding, and everyone is tested and fatigued by the coronavirus.
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“If we can offer a break during Christmas, that is what we would like to do.”
He added: “The only way to do that is for us to have the opportunity to meet and talk together.
“I really hope that the UK government takes this seriously and makes sure that those opportunities exist for all of us.”
Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has responded to the government amending a slide showing there could be as many as 4,000 coronavirus-related deaths per day next month.
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician and president of the Winton Center for Risk Communication and Evidence at the University of Cambridge, had previously described the data that was shared with the public to justify a second shutdown in England as a “disaster.”
When asked if the government is presenting “the scariest data” on Covid-19, Raab told Sky: “No, look, we show models that show what could happen if certain scenarios are met.
“We corrected the slide that you referred to and it was the large amount of scientific information that was presented … we tried to be as transparent as possible.”
He added that “mistakes are made or the facts have to be changed, but that is the point of transparency.”
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