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Good evening and welcome to bbc news. more than 150,000 people in the uk have now died within 28 days of a positive covid test. another 313 deaths have been reported in the latest daily figures. the uk is the seventh country to pass this number of official deaths, afterthe us, brazil, india, russia, mexico and peru. 0ur health correspondent, katharine da costa, has been telling us about the significance of passing the milestone of 150,000 deaths in the uk. depends how youre measuring it, but loo...

As you heard, it means the total number of people whove died with covid now stands at 150,057. on average in the past week, 182 deaths were announced every day. 0n vaccinations, over 35.2 million people have had a boosterjab, which means 61.3% of people aged 12 and over have now had three vaccine doses. and our health correspondent catherine burns is here now. 150,00 deaths — a grim milestone, put it into some context for us? it really is, and at moments like theseit it really is, and at momen...

People to come forward to still get your first and second doses, and very importantly, to get the boosterjab. campaigners say lessons need to be learned about the handling of the pandemic, and the government has said it is committed to a full public inquiry in the spring. as you say, we are the seventh country to pass this milestone, but if you look at the number of deaths compared to the size of population, we are kind of doing not as well as quite a lot of european countries, arent we? weve lo...