Coronavirus: Another 621 people die in UK with COVID-19 - Sky News

The number of people who have died with coronavirus in hospitals, care homes and the wider community in the UK has risen by 621 to 28,131.

The number of people who have tested positive for coronavirus is up 4,806 to 182,260.

Meanwhile, the number of people in hospital with the virus is down 15,111 to 14,695.

During Saturday's press conference, Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick said that 1,129,907 coronavirus tests have been carried out in the UK, including 105,937 on Friday.

Coronavirus deaths in UK rises by 621

Each home nation has been disclosing their daily figures for hospital deaths.

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In England, a total of 370 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospitals, bringing the total number of deaths to 20,853.

A further 44 people have died in Wales, taking the total number of deaths there to 969, Public Health Wales said.

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In Northern Ireland, the number of deaths have gone up by 11 to 376, and in Scotland they are up 44 to 1,559.

Saturday's figures are just short of Italy, which has had the deadliest novel coronavirus outbreak among European countries, reporting 28,236 deaths on Friday.

NHS England's figures show that 8 April still has the highest number for the most hospital deaths occurring on a single day, with a total of 864.

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Of the 370 new deaths across England announced on Saturday, 75 occurred on 1 May, 149 occurred on 30 April and 52 on 28 April.

The figures also show 85 of the new deaths happened between 1 April and 28 April while the remaining nine deaths occurred in March, with the earliest new death taking place on 13 March.

NHS England releases updated figures each day showing the dates of every coronavirus-related death in hospitals in England and often includes previously uncounted deaths that took place several days or even weeks ago.

This is due to the time it takes for deaths to be confirmed as testing positive for COVID-19, for post-mortem examinations to take place and for data from the tests to be validated.

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2020-05-02 15:13:45Z
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