Total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in UK passes 500,000
The total number of lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has now passed 500,000, as it emerged that thousands of cases were not included in daily reports due to a technical issue with the British government’s Covid-19 dashboard.
Public Health England (PHE) said its investigation into the technical issue identified that 15,841 cases between September 25 and October 2 were not included in the reported daily Covid-19 cases.
