UK deaths involving Covid-19 pass 65,000

A person walks past a rainbow mural on a closed bar in Soho, London (Yui Mok/PA)

Just over 65,000 deaths involving Covid-19 have now occurred in the UK, according to the latest available figures.

A total of 61,498 deaths have so far been registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, according to reports published last week by the Office for National Statistics, the National Records of Scotland, and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.