direct to your inbox The number of people who have died in the UK as a result of coronavirus has now passed 100,000.
The grim milestone was reached on Tuesday - almost a year to the day that the city of Wuhan was closed down as a result of the spread of the novel coronavirus on January 23, 2020.There have been 100,162 deaths in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test.During the early stage of the pandemic in March 2020, England's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, said keeping the death toll below 20,000 UK deaths would be "a good result".But that death toll has risen to a much higher number today.And now the UK has the world's fifth highest death toll behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to.