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The official coronavirus death toll for the UK passed 80,000 on Saturday, and lab-confirmed cases hit more than three million.

The new variant of coronavirus is now responsible for one in five new cases in Leeds, the city council's chief executive has said.

Paramedics are under “unprecedented pressure” with handover delays at a scale never seen before, a leading paramedic has said.

Mid and South Essex Trust - which runs Basildon and Southend hospitals - was caring for 581 coronavirus patients in hospital as of the last count.  NHS England data shows the number of people being treated in hospital for Covid-19 was down from 785 on the same day the previous week. The number of beds at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust occupied by people who tested positive for Covid-19 more than doubled in the last four weeks – 28 days ago, there were 257. Across England there were 26,467 people in hospital with Covid as of January 5, with 2,378 of them in mechanical ven...

Updated: 9 Jan 2021, 17:38 Invalid Date, EXPERTS have today labelled the Covid lockdown "too lax" - even calling for the measures to be made TOUGHER amid fears the bug could continue to spread. Brits have been told to stay at home with non-essential shops forced to close and families unable to see each other under the current restrictions - which could last until the end of March. 11 Police patrol the streets amid the coronavirus lockdownCredit: London News Pictures But as the bug continues to spread - with more than 79,000 deaths so far recorded and 68,000 cases reported in just one day - ...