Iran Press/Europe: On Tuesday, the UK recorded 14,542 daily new coronavirus cases, almost 2000 more than on Monday. This is a record number of new daily cases, with the exception of last Sunday when the number was artificially raised to 22,961 to compensate for thousands of cases that were missed between 25 September and 2 October due to a technical mistake.
The number of deaths mentioning COVID-19 on the death certificate has risen in the UK for the third consecutive week, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The UK now has a total of 42,445 dead due to the coronavirus and 530,113 confirmed cases.
There were 234 deaths involving the coronavirus registered in the week ending 25 September, up from 158 from the week before.
The global death toll nears 1,054,604 with 36,044,751 confirmed cases, according to the Worldometer.
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