Britain has reported 596 deaths from Covid-19 in hospitals in its daily update, raising the country’s total to more than 16,000 as a senior minister said the government’s testing target remained 100,000 per day.

According to a Reuters report, Britain has suffered the fifth-highest death toll from the pandemic which has been linked to almost 160,000 deaths worldwide.

Britain’s outright total is higher, as its daily figures do not include deaths outside hospitals at homes and facilities such as nursing homes for the elderly.

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