On May 5, local time, the British government released the latest statistics on the death of the new coronavirus. The number of deaths in the UK exceeded Italy, becoming the country with the largest number of deaths in Europe.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab disclosed at the daily epidemic briefing on the same day that in the past 24 hours, there were 693 new deaths in the UK, and the total number of deaths reached 29,427. It surpassed 29315 people in Italy for the first time, ranking first in European countries and second in the world. Rab announced that on the 4th, 84,806 new crest viruses were tested in the UK on a single day, and the cumulative total number of tests has reached 1,383,842. Newly confirmed cases of new coronavirus were 4,406, and a total of 49,990 cases were diagnosed. (Source: Lu Jie, social account editor at 10 Downing Street)
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]