direct to your inbox Another 610 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test, the government said on Sunday, bringing the total in the pandemic to 97,939 deaths.
Separate figures published by the UK's statistic agencies for deaths where Covid-19 is mentioned on the death certificate, together with addition data on deaths that occurred in recent days, show there have now been 114,000 deaths involving the virus in the UK.The 610 coronavirus-related deaths announced on Sunday brings the number of people to have died in the last seven days to 8,678 (up 10.8 per cent).And another 30,004 people were confirmed by laboratories to have tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours.This brings the total number of cases.