coronavirus death. The deadly virus quickly spread across the country, changing life as we know it and killing 104,371 people in the UK and counting.The tragic death of 84-year-old Peter Attwood, from Chatham, Kent, was the earlier known involving Covid-19 in the UK, although that fact was not confirmed until August.
It also came less than a month after the World Health Organisation (WHO) tweeted a warning of a "cluster" of pneumonia cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan, some 5,500 miles away.
To give a stark example of how the situation has escalated, it took until March 15 for the cumulative UK death toll to pass 100.In the first half of January 2021, data shows that more than 900 people died a day on average from Covid-19.The UK's 100th.