UK suffers deadliest day of outbreak with jump of 786 new deaths as total hits 6,159

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The UK has suffered its worst day since the coronavirus outbreak began as the number of new deaths jumped by 786, bringing the total so far to 6,159.

As of 5pm on Monday, the death toll passed 6,000 up from 5,373 the day before, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said.

The DHSC added that, as of 9am on Tuesday, 213,181 people have been tested of which 55,242 tested positive.

Overall, 266,694 tests have been concluded, with 14,006 tests carried out on Monday.

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The daily figure for the number of people tested on Monday excludes data from Manchester and Leeds because of a “data processing delay”, while the overall tests figure excludes Northern Ireland, the Department of Health added.

It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in a "stable" condition in intensive care as the Covid-19 pandemic rages on.

Earlier today, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales separately declared their latest number of Covid-19 deaths. This appeared to bring the UK total up to 854 but later official Government figures recorded a 786 nationwide rise.

NHS England said a further 758 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 5,655, up from 4,897 at the same time on Monday.

Patients were aged between 23 and 102 years old and 29 of the 758 patients (aged between 23 and 99 years old) had no known underlying health condition. Their families have been informed.

Meanwhile, A further 19 patients have died after testing positive for coronavirus in Wales, bringing the total number of deaths there to 212, health officials said.

There also have been three reported deaths of patients with coronavirus in Northern Ireland since yesterday, according to the country's Public Health Agency.

This brings the total number of deaths in the region to 73.

The number of people who have died in Scotland after contracting coronavirus is 296, a rise of 74 from 222 on Monday, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

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The figure is “relatively large”, she said because the National Records of Scotland is moving to recording deaths seven days a week, having recorded just four deaths over the weekend, which she had said would be “artificially low”.​

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