UK announces preliminary daily Covid-19 death toll of 209 – taking official number of victims to 37,257
- Department of Health officials have yet to publish the final Covid-19 figures, which are often much higher
- The preliminary death tally is calculated by adding up individual counts given by each of the home nations
- NHS England today recorded 183 Covid-19 fatalities in hospitals – but it does not provide care home figures
- Scotland registered 13 deaths, Wales 11 and Northern Ireland two from all locations, including care homes
- Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19
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Health chiefs across Britain today announced 209 more Covid-19 deaths, taking the official number of victims to 37,257.
Department of Health bosses have yet to publish the final daily figures, which includes deaths across all settings among Britons who tested positive for the coronavirus.
The preliminary tally – which is often much lower than the number given by officials – is calculated by adding up all of the individual counts given by each of the home nations.
NHS England today recorded 183 Covid-19 fatalities in hospitals, while Scotland registered 13 deaths, Wales 11 and Northern Ireland two from all locations, including care homes.
In other developments to the coronavirus crisis in Britain today:
- Two households could be allowed to meet up from next week under Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans for easing lockdown, it was revealed;
- McDonald’s announced nearly 1,000 more restaurants will reopen for drive-thrus or deliveries from next week – with a £25 cap on orders;
- British health officials have told companies offering Covid-19 antibody tests to stop processing finger-prick blood samples from patients in the UK;
- Forty per cent of staff at a hospital in Weston-super-Mare closed to new admissions because of a spike in Covid-19 patients have symptoms of the infection.
