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According to the latest figures published by UK health officials, the UK now has the highest number of deaths from the virus in Europe. So far, there has been 29,427 deaths in the UK, while Italy counts 29,315. This includes 693 new deaths on Monday. Italy now has the second-highest death toll from the virus. Worldwide, the UK is only second to the US in terms of total deaths. It is worth noting that the US' population is nearly five times greater than the UK'S. UK Foreign secretary Dominic Raab, on Tuesday at the daily UK government press briefing said: "It's now clear that the second phase will be different. We will need to adjust to a new normal. "We want to make sure that the next phase is more comfortable, is more sustainable," he added. "But we need to be under no illusions, the next stage won't be easy."

On Wednesday, April 8, the UK's coronavirus death toll crossed the 7,000 mark, as 936 more deaths were recorded. England's National Health Service has confirmed 828 more people have died in its hospitals, aged between 22 and 103 years old. 46 of the 828 dead had no underlying health conditions. Scotland has confirmed 306 more cases and 77 more deaths, and Public Health Wales has confirmed 284 more cases and 33 more deaths. Northern Ireland confirmed 5 deaths. The sum of deaths from all four UK territories amounts to 936 deaths in 24 hours. This is the highest daily death toll from the virus recorded in the UK. The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson who is coronavirus positive was admitted in hospital on Sunday as his condition worsened. He was moved to intensive care on Monday night as he got worse. Today, his spokesman said he is "responding to treatment" and is in a stable condition. "The PM is not working, he’s in intensive care, he has the ability to c...

On Sunday, April 5 the UK's coronavirus death toll rose by 621 to 4,934 deaths. The Department of Health reported that, as of 9am on Sunday, a total of 195,524 people have been tested, of which 47,806 tested positive. This morning, Professor Neil Ferguson predicted that between 7,000 and 20,000 people in the UK may die from Covid-19.  Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the Government wasn't imminently looking to tighten the rules on exercising outdoors - but further measures could follow if people do not follow them. Queen Elizabeth addressed the nation amid the coronavirus crisis, vowing: "We will succeed - and that success will belong to every one of us."

According to the Department of Health figures in the UK, a total of 2,921 coronavirus patients have died in the UK, following a surge of 569 deaths over the last 24 hours. As of 9:00 a.m. on April 2, there are 33,718 coronavirus cases in the UK. The lockdown in the UK is set to continue for a third week before review. In a video message posted on Twitter, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who is also coronavirus-positive lamented the loss of so many lives. "Let's be in no doubt this has been a sad, sad day," he said.  Legendary Scottish comedian Eddie Large has died in hospital at the age of 78 after contracting coronavirus. In a statement, Eddie's son said the family wasn't allowed to visit him while he was hospitalized due to strict social distancing rules.

On Thursday, March 19, Italy recorded 427 more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, taking its total number of deaths to 3,405. This figure shows that Italy has overtaken China's death toll as China report a total of 3,245 deaths. So far, there have been more than 220,000 coronavirus cases recorded in the world and more than 9,000 deaths. The total number of coronavirus cases in Italy have increased by 14.9%, from the previous count of 35,713 to 41,035. Italy will be extending its lockdown beyond March in a bid to contain the wild spread of the virus in the country. In the UK, Queen Elizabeth has made her first official pronouncement on the coronavirus crisis. The Queen has been moved to Windsor Castle, out of London as the virus keeps spreading. She said that "we all have a vitally important part to play" in battling the coronavirus outbreak." "I am reminded that our nation's history has been forged by people and communities coming together to w...

On Monday, March 16, the death toll from the coronavirus in the UK climbed to 55. Scientists have warned that the novel coronavirus will kill about 250,000 people in the UK unless more draconian measures are adopted by the government, especially putting the whole of Britain on lockdown. The warning report written by the Imperial College said: "In the most effective mitigation strategy examined, which leads to a single, relatively short epidemic (case isolation, household quarantine and social distancing of the elderly), the surge limits for both general ward and ICU (intensive care unit) beds would be exceeded by at least eight-fold under the more optimistic scenario for critical care requirements that we examined. "In addition, even if all patients were able to be treated, we predict there would still be in the order of 250,000 deaths in GB, and 1.1 to 1.2 million in the US." The only alternative proposed by the Imperial College report was to move to a policy...

A secret Public Health England (PHE) briefing for senior NHS officials reveals that the coronavirus epidemic in the UK will last until next spring and could lead to 7.9 million people being hospitalized. The said document also suggests that as many as 80% of Britons could become infected with the coronavirus over that time.  The document says that: "As many as 80% of the population are expected to be infected with Covid-19 in the next 12 months, and up to 15% (7.9 million people) may require hospitalization." Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia reacted to the document, saying: "For the public to hear that it could last for 12 months, people are going to be really upset about that and pretty worried about that." "A year is entirely plausible. But that figure isn’t well appreciated or understood," added Hunter, an expert in epidemiology. "I think it will dip in the summer, towards the end of June, and com...

The number of deaths from the coronavirus in Italy keeps rising by the day. 368 more deaths have been recorded between Saturday and Sunday, taking the total death tally to 1,809. The total number of coronavirus infections have also risen, from 21,157 cases on Saturday to 24,747 on Sunday.  In Spain, the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez - Begona Gomez - has been diagnosed with coronavirus. Qatar now has 401 cases, with four of those recovering. Pakistan's coronavirus cases rise risen to 52.  Britain now has 1,372 coronavirus cases, and an increase in deaths from 14 to 35. The British government announced that it would be isolating older people "in the coming weeks" in a bid to step up its response to the coronavirus crisis.