Coronavirus news live: UK death toll reaches 42,589 and six Trump campaign staffers test positive for virus before indoor rally

A woman wearing a facemask walks past a large rainbow in Covent Garden, London (Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

The UK’s coronavirus death toll has reached 42,589 after another 128 people died after testing positive for the virus.

The new figure, released today by the Department of Health and Social Care on Saturday, covers fatalities in all settings, including hospitals, care homes and the wider community.

Meanwhile, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the ‘world is in a new and dangerous phase’ during a virtual briefing in Geneva on Friday.

He added that Covid-19 is ‘still spreading fast, it is still deadly and most people are still susceptible’.

Tedros Adhanom made the warning after 150,000 new cases were recorded worldwide on Thursday, the highest single-day rise since the outbreak began.

Nearly half of those diagnoses were from the Americas, but many new cases are also coming from South Asia and the Middle East.

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