LONDON : England's hospital death toll from the coronavirus has risen by 758 to 5,655, the health service said on Tuesday, representing a re-acceleration in the count of fatalities.
Twenty-nine of the latest victims had no known underlying health condition and the ages of those who died ranged between 23 and 102.
Tuesday's total represented a faster pace of increase than the 403 new deaths announced on Monday, which was down from Sunday's figure.
An official with the National Health Service said the jump from Monday probably reflected the slower confirmation of deaths caused by coronavirus over the weekend, a pattern seen in the previous week too.