DHSC have just announced a further 180 deaths of people in the UK diagnosed with coronavirus, bringing the total to 1,408.
There is a glimmer of hope in these figures: had deaths continued to grow at that recent daily rate of roughly a third a day, we might have expected to see 350 new deaths on Sunday and 450 today.
Instead, we’ve seen slight falls: 260 new deaths on Saturday, 209 on Sunday and a further fall to 180 today.
- 22 March (Sunday) – 48 deaths
- 23 March (Monday) – 54 deaths
- 24 March (Tuesday) – 87 deaths
- 25 March (Wednesday) – 43 deaths
- 26 March (Thursday) – 113 deaths
- 27 March (Friday) – 181 deaths
- 28 March (Saturday) – 260 deaths
- 29 March (Sunday) – 209 deaths
- 30 March (Monday) – 180 deaths
