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Deaths from CORONAVIRUS in the UK today surpassed the grim milestone of 50,365 after 595 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours.
Another 22,950 people tested positive for the virus, with the total number of cases now at 1,256,725.
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There are 14,196 hospitalized patients in the UK, with 1,219 on ventilators.
In England, 361 people who tested positive for Covid-19 died in hospital.
The patients were between 43 and 102 years old and all but 20 (between 58 and 95 years old) had underlying health problems.
In Scotland, another 64 people have died from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the highest daily total since May.
Public Health Wales reported another 45 deaths this afternoon.
It comes as:
Yesterday’s death toll rose by 532, the highest increase in six months.
Another 20,412 tested positive for the deadly virus overnight, bringing the total number of positive tests in the UK to 1,233,775.
Yesterday’s increase in deaths is the highest since May 1, when 567 deaths from Covid were recorded.
The figure is considerably higher than last Tuesday, when 317 died from the virus.
It is also more than double the increase registered a fortnight ago (263) and raised the death toll in Britain to 49,770.
The Northwest saw the most deaths, with 114 deaths, while 79 people lost their lives in the Northeast and Yorkshire.
A further 62 deaths were recorded in the Midlands, with 17 in London, 13 in the South West, 11 in the South East and four in the East of England.
New statistics from England show infection rates in the north remain significantly higher, with only one southern region in the top 50 virus hotspots nationally.
The prime minister signed a new lockdown in England on October 31 after government scientists warned him that Covid-related deaths could rise to 4,000 a day in the worst case.
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But the figure has since been revised to 1,000 deaths per day in early December.
“I think he is concerned that he may have been hit,” the source said.
“The numbers seem to suggest that things were looking up before the shutdown began; they will shut us down for a month when it wasn’t necessary.”
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