The death toll in the UK due to the novel coronavirus pandemic exceeded 26,000 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
At a daily press briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab confirmed a total of 26,097 fatalities across the country.<\/p>\n
The figure is the first that includes deaths at home and the wider community, along with the usual hospital fatalities, not just deaths in hospitals.<\/p>\n
Fatalities increased by 3,811 since Tuesday, but Raab stressed that this did not necessarily indicate a surge, as the new figures included deaths from March 2 to April 28.<\/p>\n
He said the daily increase had been 765.<\/p>\n
He also cautioned against lifting the lockdown too early, saying Germany had seen since a rise in cases after easing restrictions.<\/p>\n
The UK now has the third-highest coronavirus death toll in the world after the US and Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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