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Ambulances bring patients to the Royal Hospital London, as hospitals across the UK struggle to face a surge in coronavirus cases. The country has registered its record daily death toll with 1,564 deaths. IMAGES
Ambulances line up at the Royal London hospital and a patient is rushed into the emergency unit, as recent data shows that 100,000 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in Britain since the pandemic took hold last year. IMAGES
Britain's Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps announces that 684 more people have died after testing positive for COVID-19 in hospital in the UK, taking the death toll to 19,506. Britain is one of the worst-hit countries in the world by the virus, and has been under a national lockdown for more than a month. SOUNDBITE
Health Secretary Matt Hancock says that Britain had recorded 980 deaths from coronavirus in the 24-hour period since the last report, the highest daily toll yet. SOUNDBITE
British Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Alok Sharma says that 563 people have died from coronavirus in the UK in one day, a new record marking a clear acceleration of the pandemic and bringing the death toll to 2,352, up 563 on the previous day. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, have all tested positive for COVID-19. SOUNDBITE
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