An Israeli scientist works at a laboratory at the MIGAL Research Institute in Kiryat Shmona in the upper Galilee in northern Israel on March 1, 2020 where efforts are underway to produce a vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus adapted from another for infectious bronchitis virus. (Photo by JALAA MAREY / AFP) (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)
The UK recorded 917 deaths in the last 24 hours, authorities said.
“269,598 people have been tested of which 78,991 tested positive,” the Department of Health reported.
“As of 5pm on April 10, of those hospitalised in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus, 9,875 have sadly died.”
