15 is the number of people who’ve died in the past 24 hours after being diagnosed with Coronavirus. It’s the smallest rise since March.
Many people are still being tested daily.
This brings the total UK death toll to 42,647, but the number may be slightly inaccurate, as there are errors in counting at weekends including lag. It’s the smallest rise since March 15th, and along side this, 958 people tested positive for the virus, which is a low number considering numbers have been in the thousands recently.
Overall, just over 8 million tests have been carried out in the UK, with over 300,000 testing positive. 140,000 tests were carried out or sent off for analysis in the last 24 hours here in the UK.
No deaths again have been reported in Scotland and Northern Ireland, with this being the 6th day in a row no Scottish citizens have died from the virus. Wales reported a single death in the last 24 hours, so the other 14 that were reported came from England.
Should we expect some updated numbers soon? Maybe. As there is a lag over the weekend, as mentioned before, so the next figure put out by officials may be a bit higher than usual, accounting for all the deaths not mentioned here.
Worldwide, 9 million cases have been confirmed across the globe; a staggering amount. It was only the other day we reported 8 million were infected. Still, the USA accounts for 1/4 of all cases, including around 1/3 of the active ones, with 3,700,000 active cases worldwide; 1,250,000 being American citizens.
We may expect a drop in US testing, after Trump made an interesting suggestion that the Coronavirus figures would be lower if testing numbers were lowered… yeah… moving on.
Russian cases are still rising rapidly, just behind Brazil, with Russian Coronavirus patients seemingly getting less ill than ones in countries like Europe and Italy. Despite having many more cases than the UK, Russia has 5 times fewer deaths, and scientists aren’t fully sure why.
Lockdowns across the world, overall, seem to be easing. But is it it too soon? Cases are on the rise again in some places, so officials will have to keep a close eye on the “invisible enemy”, to try and prevent further outbreaks.
