Kathmandu, March 31:
According to data collected by Worldometer, at least 36,912 people have now died as a result of the outbreak. It has counted 768,370 confirmed cases worldwide, while at least 160,238 people have recovered.
According to The Guardian, the UK death toll from the virus has surpasses 1,400.
The Department of Health and Social Care says 134,946 people have been tested for the virus, with 22,141 returning as positive. Official figures show that, as of 5pm on Sunday (GMT), 1,408 people across the country have died.
Italy’s records hundreds more deaths – but slower infection rate
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has climbed by 812 to 11,591, the country’s civil protection agency says, reversing two days of declines in the daily rate. But the number of new cases rose by just 4,050; the lowest nominal increase since 17 March. A total 101,739 people have now tested positive.
US ‘faces hundreds of thousands of deaths’
As many as 200,000 people in the US may die even if Washington plays its response to the outbreak “almost perfectly”, according Dr Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House coronavirus taskforce.
“If we do things together well, almost perfectly, we could get in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 fatalities,” she told told NBC News’ Today. We don’t even want to see that … the best-case scenario would be 100% of Americans doing precisely what is required, but we’re not sure … that all of America is responding in a uniform way to protect one another.”
The UK’s death toll from Covid-19 has risen to 1,408. The figures published by the Department of Health and Social Care relate to those that had died in hospitals as of 5pm on Sunday. From tomorrow, the ONS will begin producing weekly statistics which take in deaths in the community.
The number of coronavirus-related admissions to hospitals is expected to continue to rise in coming weeks. Currently the NHS is seeing around 1,000 new patients a day, but the government’s chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, insisted this was “not an acceleration”. He added that though the number “may go up a little bit”, it could begin to stabilise and fall in two or three weeks time.
London may be “two or four weeks away” from its peak of coronavirus cases, according to the city’s mayor. Sadiq Khan said his estimate was “not an exact science” but referred to when the largest number of people would have the virus, and when the highest number of deaths would be recorded.
– Agencies