Covid-19: UK passes 7 million confirmed Covid cases

More than seven million confirmed cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the UK since the pandemic began, official figures show. It comes as another 41,192 positive tests were reported on Monday, along with 45 Covid-related deaths. But the real number of people infected during the pandemic is likely to be much higher, partly due to the lack of testing in the early stages. Covid-19 has been named on the death certificate of 156,119 people. The most recent figures show that there are 7,606 Covid-19 patients in hospital, with 1,034 on ventilators.