The death toll due to Covid in hospitals rises by more than 880 in a single day.
The death toll for Covid-19 in UK hospitals jumped to 7,978. It is increased by 881 from the day before. Dominic Raab said that more than 65,000 people have tested positive for Covid-19 and around 16,700 people have treated in hospital with Covid-19 symptoms.
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Covid: death toll in hospital rises a lot
The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, said lockdown measures would need stay in place, adding that we are not done yet.
We must keep going. It’s been almost three weeks and we’re starting to see the impact of the sacrifices we’ve all made. But the deaths are still rising and we haven’t yet reached the peak of the virus. The government announced a daily death toll of 938 on Wednesday, which was around 150 more than the previous day.
Professor James Naismith from the University of Oxford told that it is a mercy that the number of deaths reported today is lower than yesterday but on its own, the numbers of a single day have no value in judging the pandemic. The director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute, a medical research center added that the continuing volatility in daily figure of announced deaths (due to different reporting periods and delays) makes it almost impossible to identify any trend with certainty yet.
The government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance said were “making a difference” on the infection rate. The social distancing is working and people are doing what they’re supposed to do and we need to keep doing that. The reason why we should keep doing that is that it stops the transmission of the virus in the community and we know that is already happening.
The UK has been in lockdown for several weeks as it fights the Covid-19 outbreak. People told to stay at home unless it is essential and all non-essential stores ordered to shut. The government has also banned public gatherings of more than two people to stop the disease spreading.
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