Another 757 people have died in UK hospitals after contracting coronavirus, taking the death toll to at least 18,174.

Today’s jump in deaths is another huge daily increase, following a rise of 828 yesterday.

The toll was updated after England recorded another 665 deaths. Scotland reported 77 deaths, while 15 were recorded in Wales. Northern Ireland has not yet released its new death toll.

A total of 18,174 is calculated by combined the self-reported figures from England (16,272), Scotland (1,062), Wales (624), and Northern Ireland (216, as of yesterday).

The combined daily increase from the three nations (not including Northern Ireland) today comes to 757, which could different to the figure later released by the Department of Health this afternoon.

The government has said this difference is because each devolved authority often makes amendments to their own data after reporting deaths to the Department of Health (DoH) each day.

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It is important to note that all of these deaths occurred in hospitals across the UK. They do not take into account the people dying at home, in care facilities, hospices, or other locations outside of hospitals.

The latest figures were released after it emerged as many as 41,000 people may have already died from coronavirus in the UK, according to new analysis of official figures.

The estimate from Financial Times (FT) includes deaths outside of hospitals, and is more than double the figure of 17,337 released by the DoH yesterday.

The DoH releases figures every day but it only counts people who have died in hospitals after testing positive for the virus.

The figures have been proved to significantly underestimate the true coronavirus death toll by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

New data from the ONS yesterday revealed the number of coronavirus deaths in England and Wales up to April 10 was 41% higher.

The ONS said 13,121 people in England and Wales had died by April 10 with mentions of Covid-19 on their death certificates, compared with 9,288 in the government’s daily toll.

The FT said it came to a ‘conservative estimate’ of 41,102 UK deaths by analysing the relationship between the ONS figures and the daily hospital deaths, which it says have remained stabled during the pandemic.

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