Coronavirus in the UK, latest updates: the death toll raised up

The updates on the numbers of death and Coronavirus infections is negative: the figures continue to rise despite the latest restrictions.

There are only bad updates after the death roll for Coronavirus is continuing to grow but a new Coronavirus testing project is being set up. It can check 100,000 people a day, one of the nation’s top health chiefs has claimed. The 100,000 proposed tests are the much sought-after “antigen” tests which show if someone currently has the virus. That’d be on top of the 25,000 tests a day that PHE wants to reach by the end of the month.

Yet Prof. Cosford could give no set time when the new tests are introduced and he made clear it’s not even his department’s responsibility.

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Coronavirus: death and infected people updated figures

NHS figures that more than 1.7million Brits may already have contracted Coronavirus with the UK death toll jump to over 2,000s.

This data came since March 18, 1,496,651 people registered only symptoms in line with Covid-19, while almost a quarter of a million were assessed as potential patients via 111 and 999 calls. The pandemic is expected to peak over Easter later this month. While health officials fear tens of thousands of Brits will contract the potentially deadly disease in the next few weeks. This comes after the British Medical Association asked GP practices in England to open on Good Friday and Easter Monday.

BMA has triggered emergency changes to contract regulations in a bid to help the NHS keep on top of the growing pandemic. Britain’s death toll surged by another 50 percent on Wednesday with a further 563 people dying of the virus. On Tuesday, the toll saw 381 perish. It becomes double from Monday. The overall official death figure for the death of patients in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK now sits at 2,392, with 40 of those people who died elsewhere up to March 20.

According to John Hopkins University, the pandemic contracting the disease has jumped from 25,150 to 29,474. More than 150,000 have been tested for the Coronavirus, though 179 of those who were officially found to have the disease have recovered. Before that, the government said fatalities had risen by 563 to a total of 2,352 as of 4pm on March 31. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in video message post on Twitter, “Let’s be in no doubt this has been a sad, sad day,”

So that, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said the population must continue to stringently follow government guidance and stay at home. He said: “People will understand across the country why we have put these restrictions in place and the Prime Minister was very clear they were for an initial three-week period and we would review them.” He also added that what is really important is that if we stop these too quickly, there is a possibility that that massive effort people have made across the country is wasted and we could potentially see a dangerous second peak. So, it’s essential for people to follow government guidelines.