The UK has surpassed 20,000 coronavirus deaths after another 813 people died in hospitals.
The Department of Health (DoH) confirmed as of 5pm on Friday, of those hospitalised in the UK who tested positive for COVID-19, 20,319 have died.
On 17 March, the government’s chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance said that keeping the death toll below 20,000 would be a “good outcome in terms of where we would hope to get”.
Britain has the fifth-highest official coronavirus death toll in the world, after the United States, Italy, Spain and France.
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