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UK reports 80,000 COVID-19 deaths

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NE NOW NEWS , January 10, 2021 10:56 am
UK reports 80,000 COVID-19 deaths
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The Covid-19 fatalities in the UK have reached 81,000 after 1,035 more people died across the country due to the infection.

The new tally came within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test, Xinhua news agency reported.

Another 59,937 Covid-19 cases have also been recorded on Saturday, compared to Friday’s record of 68,053, the official data showed.

The new cases brought the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 3,026,313, the data showed.

This means that Britain has hit another two grim milestones in the pandemic on Saturday as total coronavirus cases passed three million and the deaths topped 80,000 overnight.

The new official figures were released just hours after the UK government launched a new advertising campaign to urge Britons to stay at home and comply with lockdown rules.

Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, said in an advert rolled out on radio, TV and social media, “Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country. This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS (National Health Service).

“Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.”

Meanwhile, scientists advising the government warned that the current lockdown measures in England need to be “stricter” to achieve the same impact as the March 2020 shutdown.

Professor Robert West, who sits in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours, which advises the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), said the current rules were “still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus”.

West said due to the new variant of coronavirus, which is said to be up to 70 per cent more infectious, the lockdown measures need to be tougher.

“That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it’s not stricter,” he told the BBC.

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