London: The United Kingdom has reported 2,18,724 COVID-19 cases in the latest 24-hour period, exceeding 2,00,000 daily cases for the first time since the start of the pandemic on Tuesday.


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This has brought the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 13,641,520.


The country also reported a further 48 coronavirus-related deaths and the total number of coronavirus-related deaths in Britain now stands at 148,941, with 14,126 COVID-19 patients still in the hospital.


Earlier on Tuesday, British Health Secretary had said that there`s nothing in data at this point that suggests that Britain needs to move away from Plan B, which includes guidance to work from home and mandatory face masks in most public indoor venues.


"The British government is not planning to cut the isolation period from seven days to five days, as the United States has done," he said.


More than 90 per cent of people aged 12 and over in Britain have had their first dose of vaccine and around 82 per cent have received both doses, according to the latest figures.
 


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