Yahoo News UK coronavirus death toll rises by 155
Another 155 people in the UK have died after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the official death toll to 43,730.
As of 5pm yesterday a total of 9,426,631 tests for Covid-19 had been carried out in the UK, of which 312,654 were positive, the Department of Health said.
A further 689 people tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.
The new figures come after Leicester became the first UK city to go back into lockdown following a spike of coronavirus cases in the region.
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