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The UK hospital death toll from coronavirus has risen by 98, the highest increase on a Friday since early June, as much of the country prepares for tighter lockdown restrictions.
England reported 82 new deaths, Scotland had nine, Wales had five and Northern Ireland had two to bring the hospital count to 35,730.
It’s the biggest increase on a Friday since 142 deaths were announced four months ago on June 5.
By comparison, the death toll on recent Fridays was 64 on October 9, 55 on October 2, 36 on September 25, 18 on September 18, and nine on September 11.
The lowest increase announced on a Friday was five on August 21, while the highest was 953, which was set on April 10 as the UK was going through the first peak of its outbreak.
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The death toll announced this week was 98 on Friday, 108 on Thursday, 97 on Wednesday, 101 on Tuesday and 43 on Monday, which was lower due to a delay in reporting deaths over the weekend.
On Friday, NHS England announced 82 deaths, bringing the total number of hospital deaths in England to 30,825.
The victims were between 35 and 97 years old, and all but eight (between 49 and 94) had known underlying health problems.
The North West reported the highest number of deaths (39), followed by the North East and Yorkshire (21), the Midlands (13), the East (five) and London (four). No fatalities were reported in either the southeast or southwest.
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Lancashire is scheduled to enter a Level 3 (very high) lockdown, which carries the strictest restrictions, from Saturday as London, most of Essex and York move to Level 2 (high).
Leaders in the Liverpool city region, the first area to enter a Level 3 lockdown, called the new system “chaos” due to inconsistencies.
Issue 10, meanwhile, said the prime minister was not currently considering imposing a national lockdown called a “circuit breaker.”
Scotland has recorded nine deaths of coronavirus patients in the past 24 hours, Nicola Sturgeon announced.
This brings the death toll from this measure, of people who tested positive for the virus for the first time in the previous 28 days, to 2,594.
Speaking during the Scottish Government’s daily briefing, the Prime Minister said 1,196 people tested positive in the past 24 hours.
This is 16.9% of the newly screened people, up from 17.6% on Thursday.
She said 45,232 people have now tested positive for the virus, up from 44,036 the day before.
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Of the new cases, 416 are in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 309 in Lanarkshire, 161 in Lothian and 104 in Ayrshire and Arran.
There are 629 hospitalized people confirmed with the virus, an increase of 27 in 24 hours.
Of these patients, 58 were in intensive care, an increase of six.
Sturgeon said a new tiered lockdown system in Scotland “will strengthen our resilience to living with this virus” when it replaces temporary measures that will end on October 25.
In Wales, the death toll rose by five to 1,703 and there were 979 new cases, a daily record, bringing the total to 34,0005.
Prime Minister Mark Drakeford said the Welsh Government will meet over the weekend to discuss closing a switch and announce any decisions on Monday.
Wales’ ban on visitors entering from coronavirus hotspots in other parts of the UK takes effect on Friday.
There were two additional deaths in Northern Ireland, where a four-week circuit breaker lockout went into effect on Friday. The toll is now 608.
It also set a new daily record with 1,299 confirmed cases. His total is now 25,177.
Meanwhile, the reproduction number, or R-value, of the coronavirus transmission in the UK still remains above 1.
Data released Friday by the Government Office for Science and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) shows that the R estimate for the whole of the UK is between 1.3 and 1.5.
Last week, the R number was between 1.2 and 1.5.
R represents the average number of people each person infects with Covid-19.
When the number is greater than 1, a sprout can grow exponentially.
An R number between 1.3 and 1.5 means that, on average, every 10 infected people will infect between 13 and 15 more people.
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