UK pauses daily coronavirus deaths update for urgent review

The UK government on Saturday said it was pausing the publication of daily coronavirus deaths after health secretary Matt Hancock ordered an urgent review into how Public Health England calculates the figures.

"Currently the daily deaths measure counts all people who have tested positive for coronavirus and since died, with no cut-off between time of testing and date of death. There have been claims that the lack of cut-off may distort the current daily deaths number," he said on the government's website.

There have been 40,528 deaths linked to the virus in England.