LONDON: The number of COVID-19 cases has reached 2,957,472 in the United Kingdom (UK) after 68,053 new cases were reported in the country.

Currently, 1,512,818 are undergoing treatment at various hospitals and isolation wards across the country while 1,364,821 have recovered from the pandemic.

Similarly, the death toll linked with the coronavirus has reached 79,833 with 1,325 new deaths so far in the country, according to the latest figures collated by Worldometer.

Broke out in Wuhan City of China in December 2019, the coronavirus has killed 1,920,754 and infected 89,322,709 globally until the filing of this news.