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Grim day as US, UK and Germany all see record high COVID-related deaths
The United Kingdom, Germany and the United States have all recorded their highest daily death tolls from the coronavirus pandemic.
Key points:
- Sadiq Khan has labelled London’s COVID-19 outbreak a “major incident”, a term which in the UK is usually reserved for terror attacks or grave accidents
- The United States has topped 4,000 daily deaths from the coronavirus for the first time
- Germany also recorded a daily high death toll and fears a more transmissible variant may put extra strain on struggling hospitals
On Friday the UK recorded 1,325 deaths of people who had tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 28 days, eclipsing the previous record of 1,224 that occurred on April 21 last year during the first peak of the pandemic.
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