Another 181 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus – the biggest one-day jump since the outbreak began.The latest figures take the grim death tally in the UK up from 578 to 759 – an increase of 31% on the total yesterday.It took 13 days for the number of deaths in the UK to go from one to just above 100.
It took a further eight days to reach the latest total of 759.The number of people tested in the UK for coronavirus has also seen its biggest day-on-day increase since the outbreak began: up 8,911, from 104,866 tested as of 9am on March 26 to 113,777 tested as of 9am on March 27.Just under 50,000 tests (46,801) were carried out in the seven days to 9am March 27.In the previous seven days the number was 34,205.The
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