UK coronavirus death toll jumps from 54 yesterday to 87 today - bringing a total of 422 fatalities - and infection cases leap by 1,427 in biggest daily rise yet... so why are people STILL crammed on Tubes and trains and mingling in parks?
83 patients died overnight in England, including 21 at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Scotland today announced two fatalities, while Wales and Northern Ireland both confirmed another death
Police officers were today forced to break up barbecues in England as Brits flouted new draconian powers
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The UK's coronavirus death toll has jumped to 422 in the biggest daily rise yet, and yet people are still crammed on the tubes and mingling in parks.
Eighty-seven more patients died overnight in England, including 21 at the one NHS trust in London. Scotland also announced two fatalities, while Wales and Northern Ireland confirmed another death.
In contrast, fifty-four infected Brits died the day before. The UK's death toll has risen almost six-fold in the space of a week, with just 71 fatalities recorded last Tuesday.
Britain also saw a record spike in cases today, with 1,427 more patients known to have caught the virus as the total number of infected Britons surpassed 8,000.
But the true size of the outbreak is being hidden because of the Government's controversial decision to only test patients in hospital. The true size of the outbreak is likely to be closer to the 400,000 mark.
It comes as police officers were today forced to break up barbecues being held in different parts of the UK as Brits flouted new draconian powers to disperse crowds of more than two to halt the spread of coronavirus.
In shocking footage, Shepherd's Bush officers were forced to use a megaphone to disperse large crowds of people sunbathing on the green, clearly not abiding by the rules of the lockdown set by the Prime Minister.
From a police van, an officer said: 'You can't stay on the green, can you all go home. Can you all go home please this is not a holiday, it's a lockdown, which means you don't just come here and sunbathe. Please just leave.'
Health Secretary Matt Hancock today launched a drive for a 250,000 strong 'volunteer army' to boost the NHS and stop it being swamped amid the coronavirus crisis.
He said he wanted helpers to come forward to bolster local services - as he also revealed that a new hospital, the NHS Nightingale, is being created at the Excel centre in London.
In other coronavirus developments:
- Builders across the UK have said they feel 'angry and unprotected' as they continued working on busy construction sites
- Britain was placed under new draconian measures which to keep people indoors, including allowing outside exercise only once a day, social gatherings of more than two people banned, and non-essential travel prohibited, with police handed powers to slap offenders with fines;
- Londoners continued to cram into packed Tube carriages during this morning's rush-hour, with union chiefs calling on Sadiq Khan to get a grip of the capital's public transport;
- The Mayor of London came under fire for blaming commuters for flouting advice over non essential travel;
- Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt demanded more NHS workers were tested for coronavirus, which has killed 335 and infected 6650 in the UK;
- Supermarket websites crashed and delivery slots were booked solid for weeks as lockdown begun;
- Sports Direct insisted it was providing an essential service and tried to open it stores, but was forced to U-turn under pressure from the government;
- The FTSE 100 opened up 4 per cent as investors seemingly took confidence in the PM's measures.
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