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LONDON, April 9 (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday it had
given 545,511 COVID vaccine doses on April 8, the highest daily
total since April 1, while a further 60 people had died within
28 days of a positive test for the disease, raising this death
toll to 127,040.
The number of people in Britain who have received two
vaccine doses rose to 6.541 million and the number who have
received at least one dose increased to 31.903 million, more
than 60% of the adult population according to government daily
figures.
Some 3,150 people were reported to have tested positive for
COVID-19 in the daily data published on April 9, taking the
number of cases over the past 7 days to 19,804, 32% lower than
the week before.
Health officials also said they had revised down some
cumulative data after positive cases detected by rapid lateral
flow tests later turned out to be negative. In 8,010 cases the
lateral flow tests were followed within 3 days by a
gold-standard PCR test and found to be negative.
Cheaper and faster lateral flow tests are increasingly being
used to reopen the economy and some scientists have raised
questions about the volume of false positives they can produce.
Public Health England has said that anyone receiving a
positive test on a lateral flow device should follow it with a
PCR test to be sure.
(Reporting by David Milliken and Kate Holton)
