30 Sep 2020

Record number of Covid cases reported in UK

From First Up, 5:06 am on 30 September 2020

To the United Kingdom now where it's just been revealed that a record number of covid-19 cases have been reported in the past 24 hours. This comes as the world hits the grim total of one million covid-19 related deaths. Our correspondent in the UK, Henry Riley tells us the latest new case number overnight is 7,143, the highest ever daily rise since the pandemic began.