The U.K. Office for National Statistics said Tuesday the death toll from COVID-19 has climbed above 32,000, placing it above Italy’s and making the U.K. the worst hit in Europe from the deadly illness, the Guardian reported. The ONS said it registered 29,648 deaths in England and Wales through May 2 with COVID-19 on the death certificate. Adding in the additional deaths in Scotland and Northern Ireland and the death tally comes to 32,313, according to calculations made by Reuters. That puts it ahead of the 29,079 deaths recorded in Italy. The U.K. numbers have not yet been updated in data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking the spread of the virus.
