A total of 26,097 patients had died in hospitals, care homes and the wider
community after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK as of 5pm on Tuesday
The figures for the first time include casualties from outside of hospitals, the comparable increase in deaths from yesterday was 765, the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said when addressing the Downing Street Daily Press Conference.
Public Health England said the total number of deaths was around 17% higher than previous data showed. The body said it was reporting an additional 3,811 deaths since the start of the outbreak.
Raab said we were in “a delicate and dangerous moment” and said that we were coming thru the peak adding that we mustn’t gamble the sacrifice and progress we have made.
We will wait for Sage’s next review of data in early May to decide what to do next, he added.
