United Kingdom experiences biggest 1-day coronavirus casualty clump since May
The United Kingdom is getting walloped by the coronavirus.
The European nation lost 598 citizens to COVID-19 on Tuesday, its worst one-day casualty tally since May, The Associated Press reported.
During the past seven-day period, 2,975 Brits have succumbed to the disease — an 18% uptick over the previous week, according to the official U.K. government coronavirus-tracking website.
The national coronavirus death count now stands at more than 52,800 victims with Tuesday’s total accounting for more than 1% of the entire tally.
“We’ve already seen the serious impact that long COVID can have on people’s quality of life, even the fit and the young, symptoms like fatigue and breathlessness, muscle pain and neurological problems, long after they first had the virus,” explained health minister Matt Hancock. “And we know that long COVID affects thousands of people, many thousands of people.”
Just over 20,000 more United Kingdom residents tested positive on Tuesday, topping 1.4 million affected citizens, noted COVID-19 health tracker Johns Hopkins University.
While the London area has experienced a sizable rash of infections, the surrounding areas of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester have been the hardest hit, according to the U.K. site.
United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who spent three weeks hospitalized with a severe case of COVID-19 in April, is currently self-quarantining after coming into close contact with a politician who tested positive, reported CNN on Tuesday.
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The U.K. ranks fifth globally in coronavirus casualties, trailing Brazil, India and Mexico. America has suffered the most deaths with more than 248,000.
Globally, more than 1.33 million people have lost their lives to the disease so far, according to Johns Hopkins.
