LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom’s death toll from people who tested positive for COVID-19 has risen by 176 to 39,904, the government said on Thursday.
On Wednesday a separate tally of UK deaths using official data from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, drawn mostly from death certificate data and including suspected cases, showed a total of more than 50,000 earlier.
(Reporting by David Milliken and Estelle Shirbon, writing by William James; editing by Stephen Addison)
