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The death toll in hospitals from coronavirus in the UK has risen by 250 ahead of Boris Johnson’s ‘Covid winter plan’ announcement.
Today’s death toll is Sunday’s biggest increase since May 3, when 358 deaths were recorded.
In England, the number of deaths in hospitals from new coronaviruses was 222, Scotland had seven deaths, Wales had 11 more deaths and Northern Ireland said 10 more people died in hospital.
Last Sunday, the death toll at the hospital increased by 168.
The Sunday before, November 8, another 161 patients died, and the Sunday before, November 1, there were 137 deaths.
Yesterday, the number of deaths in hospitals from coronavirus in the United Kingdom increased by 391 in the highest increase on Saturday since May.
In England’s hospitals, 316 more died from coronavirus, Scotland recorded another 37 deaths, in Wales the death toll rose by 28 and in Northern Ireland another 10 deaths were sadly recorded.
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Scotland has recorded seven coronavirus deaths and 844 positive tests in the past 24 hours, according to the Scottish government.
New figures released show that the death toll under this measure, of people who tested positive for the virus for the first time in the previous 28 days, has risen to 3,503.
The daily rate of positivity for the test is 5.4%, compared to 5.9% the day before.
A total of 88,361 people have tested positive in Scotland, up from 87,517.
Of the new cases, 309 are in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 181 in Lanarkshire and 119 in Lothian.
There are 1,170 people in the hospital confirmed to have the virus, 23 in 24 hours.
Of these patients, 95 are in intensive care, five fewer.
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Another 10 people with Covid-19 have died in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health said.
The death toll recorded by the department now stands at 933.
There were also 342 other confirmed cases of the virus in the last 24 hours.
A total of 49,784 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Northern Ireland since the pandemic began.
The latest figures come as Boris Johnson is expected to make a statement from Commons to announce his “Covid Winter Plan” on Monday.
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Johnson is expected to announce that the shutdown in England will end on December 2.
Once completed, England will be subjected to a three-tiered regional restriction system, similar to the one in place before the shutdown, but with more stringent measures.
A spokesman said: “It will also establish how people will be able to see their loved ones at Christmas, even though ministers have made it clear that this will not be a normal holiday period.”
Statistics professor Sir David Spiegelhalter previously said that if the country winters with the same deaths as a bad flu season, it will have done well.
He told Times Radio on Sunday that it was only possible because of restrictive measures that even this, with potentially tens of thousands of deaths, was possible.
Sir David, statistician and president of the Winton Center for Risk Communication and Evidence at Cambridge University, added: “It’s going to be a bad year [2021], there will be tens of thousands of Covid deaths during the winter and there is very little we can do about it.
“It’s quite possible that overall it looks like a bad flu season, especially since there is likely to be very little flu.
“There are going to be people who will say ‘why have we had such a fuss when it’s like a bad flu season?’
“Do not listen to them, this is a true misinformation, it will only be so because of the measures that have been taken.
“If we can get away with something that looks like a bad flu year, then we will have done very well.”
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