By Ella Wills
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• Coronavirus pandemic

The UK has announced zero daily Covid deaths within 28 days of a positive test for the first time since March 2020.

Thelatest figuresalso reported another 3,165 new cases, compared with 3,383 on Monday and 2,493 one week ago.

It comes amid concern over a recent small rise in cases linked to the variant first identified in India.

Reports of daily deaths are often lower at weekends and at the start of the week.

This is because less counting takes place while statisticians are off – and adding in the bank holiday weekend will make this figure less certain still.

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