Covid: death toll increases to 16,060 in the UK

Covid's death toll in the UK reach 16060, but some institute of researches are tring to find a vaccine.

The Department of Health confirmed that on Sunday 19/4 the Covid death toll in the UK increases to 16,060. Almost 100 health and care workers are believed to died after contracting this virus. About 43 NHS workers became victims of Covid-19, as the Department of Health said. While the Nursing Notes website, which is owned and run by nurses, said a total of 95 health and social care workers are known to have died from Covid-19.

However, when other care workers are taken into consideration, the number is believed to be more than double the government figure.

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Covid: the increase of the death toll in the UK

On the other side, Profesor Carl Heneghan, director of the center for evidence-based medicine at Oxford University, said the Government lockdown was likely to do more damage than Covid-19 itself.

He said: “The key is no-one has really understood how many people actually have the infection. You could do that really quickly with a random sampling of a thousand people in London who thought they had the symptoms.

You could do that in the next couple of days and get a really key handle on that problem and we’d be able to then understand coming out of lockdown much quicker. In fact, the damaging effect now of lockdown is going to outweigh the damaging effect of Covid-19.” But need to know that the trial for a Covid-19 vaccine will begin this week, scientists said. Researchers at University Hospital Southampton and the University of Southampton are set to begin trials of a vaccine pioneered in the UK. Up to 510 healthy volunteers, aged 18-55, will be involved in testing the vaccine.

But Prof. Gilbert said that there were about 140 vaccines in development but not all of them will be successful. She also added: “We have always said this will not be the only vaccine. We think multiple vaccines can be successful, but there now I think about 140 different vaccines in development and not all of them will be successful by any means.”