LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom recorded 1,508 daily confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to government data published on Wednesday, up from 1,295 a day earlier.

Ten people died within 28 days of testing positive for the disease, the daily statistics release said, bringing the total death toll under that measure to 41,514.

(Reporting by Andrew MacAskill, editing by Estelle Shirbon)

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