UK Covid-19 death toll reaches 28,000 people

The UK’s coronavirus death toll has risen to at least 27, 975 after 465 more people died in hospitals. The toll was updated after England recorded another 370 deaths in hospitals, Scotland another 40, Wales another 44 and Northern Ireland another 11, Metro reports. 

As of yesterday, the total number of people who have died of Covid-19 in all settings stood at 27,510. The new number will rise even further later today, when deaths in care homes and the wider community are announced, Metro reports.

The UK now has the third-highest number of recorded deaths in the world, which critics have blamed on the government’s slow response to the outbreak, including its testing strategy.