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Britain's Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps announces that 684 more people have died after testing positive for COVID-19 in hospital in the UK, taking the death toll to 19,506. Britain is one of the worst-hit countries in the world by the virus, and has been under a national lockdown for more than a month. SOUNDBITE
British Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Alok Sharma says that 563 people have died from coronavirus in the UK in one day, a new record marking a clear acceleration of the pandemic and bringing the death toll to 2,352, up 563 on the previous day. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, have all tested positive for COVID-19. SOUNDBITE
The number of people who have died from Covid-19 around the world has passed three million, according to an AFP tally, as the number of fatalities continues to rise despite vaccination campaigns. IMAGES
The chief executive of Britain's independent medicines regulator, June Raine, announces that out of 79 cases of blood clots in people having received a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, 19 people have died, during a press conference over concerns about links between AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine and blood clots. SOUNDBITE
British Prime minister Boris Johnson says he takes "full responsibility for everything that the government has done" as the UK's Covid-19 death toll tops 100,000. SOUNDBITE
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