(Bloomberg) --
A further 649 people were reported to have died from coronavirus in the U.K., the latest figures show.
This brings the country's death toll to 30,076, making it the first European nation to report more than 30,000 confirmed deaths.
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Some 6,111 more people were diagnosed with the virus, the figures announced at the government's daily press briefing show. This takes the country's total number of confirmed cases past 200,000, only the fourth country in the world to report that many confirmed cases.
The figures are closely watched at indicators of when the U.K. could relax its coronavirus restrictions. The government says the country is past the peak of the outbreak, but the numbers being infected and dying are still too high.
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On Sunday the government is expected to lay out a roadmap to getting the country back to work, in turn alleviating the fiscal burden of its emergency support measures.
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