People pass by a recently painted mural of a nurse in Manchester, Britain, on Nov. 5, 2020. (Photo by Jon Super/Xinhua)
Britain is the fifth country in the world to hit the tragic milestone of 50,000 COVID-19 deaths, following the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico.
LONDON, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- The number of people who have died with COVID-19 in Britain has passed 50,000, according to government figures released Wednesday.
Another 595 people have died in a 24-hour period, bringing the total coronavirus-related deaths in Britain to 50,365, the figures showed.
Britain is the fifth country in the world to hit the tragic milestone of 50,000 COVID-19 deaths, following the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico.
Another 22,950 people have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 1,256,725, the data showed.
A person cycles past closed restaurants, shops and pubs near Regent Street in London, Britain, on Nov. 5, 2020. (Photo by Tim Ireland/Xinhua)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday that the grim figures showed that "we are not out of the woods yet."
"Every death is a tragedy... we mourn everybody who's gone," he said.
"I do think that we have got now to a different phase in the way that we treat it," Johnson said, referring to the country's mass testing program and the "realistic prospect" of a vaccine.
"It does still require everybody to follow the guidance, do the right thing, to suppress the disease in a way that we all understand," he added.
England last week entered into a month-long national lockdown, the second of its kind since the coronavirus outbreak in Britain, in a bid to quell the resurgence of coronavirus.
To bring life back to normal, countries including Britain, China, Germany, Russia and the United States are racing against time to find a vaccine.
A pedestrian wearing a face mask walks past the closed Liberty department store in London, Britain, on Nov. 5, 2020. (Photo by Tim Ireland/Xinhua)■
