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UK reports 263 COVID-19 deaths, highest daily total since March

Published 26/10/2021, 16:29
Updated 26/10/2021, 16:40
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A COVID marshal patrols, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Bournemouth, Britain, March 30, 2021. REUTERS/Paul Childs/File Photo

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A COVID marshal patrols, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Bournemouth, Britain, March 30, 2021. REUTERS/Paul Childs/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain reported 263 deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test on Tuesday, the highest daily total reported since March 3 following a steady rise in cases in the last month, according to government data.

Another 40,954 cases were reported, a rise on Monday's 36,567, although the running total for the last seven days had flattened, the data showed.

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Anybody seen what Astra Seneca said today...The UK are testing 10 times as many people than the EU!
seems to me our system of counting only works from monday to friday every weekend the numbers are trivial and then a huge rise in early part of the week .
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