Britain’s coronavirus death toll today jumped to 335 after health officials announced 54 more patients had died overnight in the UK’s worsening crisis.
England confirmed 46 more deaths, while Wales and Scotland each confirmed four more fatalities from the life-threatening infection – meaning the UK’s death toll has almost doubled since Friday.
Wales has now recorded a total of 16 deaths from the killer virus, the second highest in the UK outside of England.
Fourteen patients have succumbed to the illness in Scotland, while Northern Ireland has reported two deaths. The remaining 303 fatalities are in England.
6,650 people in the UK are known to have caught the coronavirus, a rise of 967 from the previous day – the second highest total since the outbreak began.
But experts say the true figure is more likely to be around the 300,000 mark because the Government is only testing people who’ve been hospitalised.
The government’s chief scientist, Patrick Vallance (pictured in Downing Street today), suggested last week that a UK death toll of around 20,000 would be a ‘good outcome’, albeit still ‘horrible’
