Coronavirus news live: UK death toll at 43,550 and more than 500,000 have now lost their lives to Covid-19 worldwide

Coronavirus cases may have fallen across the UK but testing continues (Picture: PA)

Another 36 people in the UK have lost their lives after testing positive for coronavirus.

Today’s announcement from the Department for Health and Social care brings the national death toll to 43,550.

More than 500,000 people have now died with coronavirus across the world.

The global death toll currently stands at 501,893, while there are more than 10,000,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers.

About one in four of deaths, more than 125,000, have occurred in the US, while Brazil has the second-highest death toll – more than 57,000 fatalities.

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