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Health

UK reports 1,009 new confirmed cases of COVID-19

FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask walks past an illustration of a virus outside a regional science centre, as the city and surrounding areas face local restrictions in an effort to avoid a local lockdown being forced upon the region, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Oldham, Britain August 3, 2020. REUTERS/Phil Noble

A total of 1,009 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the United Kingdom on Wednesday, taking the cumulative number of cases in the country to 313,798, government data showed.

The daily figure was down from 1,148 on Tuesday.

It was the third time the daily number of cases has surpassed 1,000 this month. Previously, it had last topped 1,000 in June.

(Reporting by Costas Pitas and Estelle Shirbon; editing by Stephen Addison)

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