BRITAIN’S death toll has now risen to 240 today – after seven more coronavirus patients died in Wales. It takes the number dead from the killer virus there to 12, as more than 5,000 cases have been reported in the UK.
NEW: Saturday 21 March update of our coronavirus mortality trajectories tracker
• Today we add annotations showing when each country locked down
• UK & US already have more deaths than when China, Spain, France & others locked downLive version here: https://t.co/VcSZISFxzF pic.twitter.com/Nie5jBSX24
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 21, 2020
It was revealed yesterday a 41-year-old died after contracting the disease, becoming the UK’s youngest victim.
In the biggest 24-hour leap yet, 56 new deaths were recorded for the whole of the country yesterday. more …
"The UK has recorded more deaths than both Italy and China did at the same stage of their outbreak."@ashishskynews takes a look at how the UK compares to the rest of the world with #coronavirus cases and its response.
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— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 22, 2020