United Kingdom reaches highest COVID-19 death toll in Europe
Britain's death toll from the coronavirus has topped 32,000, according to an updated count released on Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics. The figures pushed Britain past Italy to become the second-most affected country after the United States. The new toll has not yet been incorporated into the official daily figures, which record the current number of deaths as 29,427.
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- Published Date: 07:14 | 05 May 2020
- Modified Date: 08:15 | 05 May 2020
Britain's official coronavirus death total has passed Italy's number to become the highest in Europe.
The U.K. government says 29,427 people with COVID-19 have died in hospitals, nursing homes and other settings, an increase of 693 on the figure announced a day earlier. In Italy, 29,315 people confirmed to have the virus have died.
The toll is the second-highest in the world behind the United States.
Both the British and Italian tallies are probably underestimates because they do not included suspected cases. In the U.K. there have been 32,375 deaths in which COVID-19 was either confirmed or suspected.
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