coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time in four months.Tuesday saw 143 people die who had tested positive for Covid-19 in the 28 days beforehand.It's the highest daily death toll since June.The grim new statistic brings the UK's total pandemic death toll to 43,018.On Tuesday, 17,234 people tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic to 634,920.
Britain is currently battling a serious second wave of infections that has seen more people hospitalised with the virus than in the time before a national lockdown was introduced in March.Yesterday Boris Johnson announced a new Local Covid Alert Levels system that would see England divided into three tiers of social.