Coronavirus: total UK cases and deaths, real-time map
Updates on the total number of registered Covid-19 cases, deaths and discharged patients, both in the United Kingdom and throughout the world.
This article is now out of date. You can follow the UK's coronavirus numbers for Friday 3 April here.
Confirmed UK coronavirus cases
As of 00:00 BST (01:00 CEST) on Friday 3 April, there had been 33,718 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, with 2,921 deaths in total. A total of 135 individuals have officially recovered from Covid-19 after contracting the disease.
Worldwide real-time coronavirus map
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Worldwide coronavirus cases
The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide at the above time stood at 1,014,296. In total, 52,982 people have died from Covid-19, while 212,018 have recovered from the disease.
UK coronavirus news
More than a half of Britons think Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government was too slow to order a lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus, an opinion poll published on Thursday showed.
The Ipsos MORI poll, carried out online March 27-30 showed 56% of people believed the government's enforcement of social distancing measures were taken too late, compared with 4% who felt that they were taken too soon. Ipsos MORI said it interviewed 1,072 British adults aged 18-75.
In Thursday's briefing, health secretary Matt Hancock said that by the end of April they will be conducting 100,000 coronavirus tests per day. He also stated that the UK has a five-pillar strategy on testing and also that they had started building a 'large diagnostics industry', something that was needed as, unlike say Germany, one didn't already exist.
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