The UK on Tuesday hit another grim COVID-19 milestone as the country’s death toll from the deadly virus crossed 100,000 since the peak of the pandemic last year, with another 1,631 daily deaths. The total number of fatalities in the country has reached 100,162.
“It’s hard to compute the sorrow contained in that grim statistic, the years of life lost, the family gatherings not attended and for many relatives not even the chance to say goodbye,” said UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as he unveiled the latest figures at a briefing from 10 Downing Street in London. It’s an appalling and tragic loss of life. All we can do now is work together with the tolls that we have with the stay at home principle, plus the vaccines, to defeat the virus,” he said.
Johnson promised that the country will commemorate the lives lost together at a future date and also the “immense national effort” to tackle the pandemic from health workers to scientists developing vaccines and key workers. England’s Chief…