The chief medical officer for England has said the country is not “consistently” past the peak of coronavirus deaths.

Professor Chris Whitty said “the trend overall is a gradual decline” but added: “We’re definitely not consistently past the peak across the whole country at this point in time.”

It comes after Boris Johnson​ said the UK is “beginning to turn the tide” against the coronavirus pandemic as the death toll among Covid-19 hospital patients increased by its lowest amount since the end of March .

The UK death toll in hospitals jumped by 360 as of 5pm on Sunday, Matt Hancock said at the Downing Street press briefing.

Matt Hancock announced that the number of people who have died in UK hospitals has risen by 360 in the last 24 hours.

The new figure brings the UK death toll to 21,092 as of 5pm on Sunday, up from 20,732 the day before.

At the Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock confirmed there have been 719,910 tests for coronavirus so far in the UK, including 37,024 on Sunday.

Some 157,149 people have now tested positive, an increase of 4,310 cases since Sunday.

NHS England announced 329 new deaths on Monday, while there were 13 recorded in Scotland. A further eight deaths were recorded in Wales, bringing the total to 350.

The total is based on separate NHS figures and is usually different to the number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health...Read More….

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