Confirmation of deadliest month of pandemic comes a year after the UK recorded its first Covid death
More than 1,000 people in the UK have died of Covid on average each day in January, making it the deadliest month of the pandemic so far by the government’s count, with more than 28,000 deaths as of Thursday.
Today marks the first anniversary of when the UK recorded its first coronavirus death, which occurred on 30 January 2020.
