The UK currently has the highest daily death rate in the world, according to figures collated by an Oxford University research platform.

Our World In Data revealed an average of 935 daily deaths over the last week was the equivalent of more than 16 people in every million dying each day with coronavirus.


It comes as a further 599 coronavirus deaths were reported in the UK, bringing the total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test to 89,860.

Meanwhile, a further 37,535 confirmed coronavirus cases were also recorded in the past 24 hours.

That compares with figures released on Sunday of 671 further deaths and 38,598 confirmed cases.

Sky News