COVID-19 deaths in UK top 100,000
The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom has surpassed 100,000, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday.
"It's hard to compute the sorrow contained in that grim statistic," Johnson said.
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More than 35,000 people in the U.K. are hospitalized with COVID-19, which is "substantially" above the peak in April, according to Johnson.
The number of people testing positive for the disease remains high but is decreasing slowly, with 20,089 new cases reported Tuesday, according to Johnson.
ABC News’ Christine Theodorou contributed to this report.