coronavirus has increased by 48 to 44,650, the government has announced. It said as of 5pm on July 9, there had been 44,650 cumulative deaths, an increase of 48 on Thursday's figures.The figures show that there have been 288,133 laboratory-confirmed cases of coronavirus as of 9am on Friday morning and 512 additional people had tested positive in 24 hours.The government said there have been 8,691,620 tests processed as of this morning.Today's figures are down on last Friday's, where there were 137 recorded deaths and 544 new confirmed cases.Earlier on Friday, NHS England announced further 22 people who had tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths in hospitals to 29,013,.