direct to your inbox A further 519 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus in the past day, the government has confirmed.
It's the highest Covid-19 death toll for a Saturday since May.As of 9am on December 12, there had also been a further 21,502 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.This brings the total death toll in the UK to 64,025 and the number of cases to 1,830,957.Both deaths and cases are on the rise, with a 24 per cent increase in cases in the seven days from November 29 - December 5, with deaths up by 1.4 per cent for the same period.NHS England on Saturday confirmed that a further 314 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of.