Health officials say 657 more people in England have died from the new coronavirus, raising the total UK deaths over 10,000.
The National Health Service figure does not include deaths in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. The number of recent deaths for the whole UK will be released later.
The 657 deaths come on top of the 9,875 deaths of people with COVID-19 in British hospitals announced Saturday.
Only a few people in Trafalgar Square, with Nelson’s Column at centre, in central London, on a normally busy long holiday weekend, April 10, 2020. (Jonathan Brady / PA via AP)
While the number of new cases and hospitalizations appears to have plateaued, deaths are still rising. Virus death tolls in Italy and Spain have been on a downward slope, and there are growing fears that the UK will end up being the country with the most virus deaths in Europe.
The global death toll has topped 110,000 with the new figures, and the number of cases are nearing 1.8 million.
— AP
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