The death toll is a rise of 674 from Wednesday, as the Department of Health now announces an up-to-date daily total for deaths in care homes, where it is feared more people are now dying of Covid-19 than in hospitals. Figures released earlier on Thursday revealed the number of hospital deaths in the UK from coronavirus dropped for the second day in a row. (Image: REUTERS)Thursday's daily total of 482 is down from 610 on Wednesday and 653 on Tuesday, and almost half of the single-day record - 953 - reported on April 10. Elsewhere, more than 110 frontline NHS and care workers are confirmed to have died during the coronavirus pandemic. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, deputising for Boris Johnson at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, said 108 NHS and social care workers are known to have died from coronavirus.

Source: Daily Mirror April 30, 2020 16:15 UTC