England, Scotland and Wales have announced another 873 deaths from the coronavirus today, taking the UK's total to 17,382.
This rise in fatalities is the biggest increase since Saturday, April 18 (888), and almost double the number that were announced yesterday (449).
Although the rebound looks bad on a graph it doesn't mean the outbreak is getting worse because the deaths are backdated - 43 of them actually happened in March, and 493 were spread across Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
NHS data shows April 8 remains the deadliest day so far in the epidemic and, with today's announcements added, the day believed to be the peak of the outbreak saw 815 hospital fatalities.
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