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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Jessica Sansome

More than 1,000 people test positive for coronavirus in UK in 24 hours

More than 1,000 people have tested positive for coronavirus in 24 hours, according to the latest figures.

The Department of Health and Social Care said on Tuesday that as of 9am, 1,148 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the UK.

Today's number is up by 332 from the day before.

This brings the country's total amount of people to have tested positive with coronavirus to 312,789.

The Department of Health has paused the publication of its daily death figures while a review is conducted into how the data is compiled by PHE.

Instead, the Public Health England (PHE) dashboard has been updating the figures.

However due to a technical fault, the dashboard will not be updated until tomorrow (August 12).

Hospital deaths for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are still being released daily.

A further six people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals to 29,425, NHS England said on Tuesday.

The patients were aged between 46 and 96 and all had known underlying health conditions.

Eight deaths were reported with no positive Covid-19 test result.

The region with the highest number of deaths was the North West with four, while the remaining two deaths were recorded in the Midlands and the South East respectively.

Another two people who tested positive for coronavirus in Wales have died, bringing the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic to 1,581.

In Scotland, the First Minister said no deaths have been recorded of patients who tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days.

Confirmed coronavirus cases, however, have sharply risen by 52 in the past 24 hours - which is up from the 29 confirmed on Monday.

No new deaths with Covid-19 have been reported in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health said.

Another 48 people tested positive, bringing the overall tally to 6,188.

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