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UK's Covid death toll rises by ONE In spite of all the hysterical talk of a 'second wave' this Winter and rising cases in England, the number of people who died in Britain on Sunday was precisely one. The Mail has more. The country's death toll is remaining low as just one person died after testing positive for the disease bringing the UK's total fatalities during the pandemic to 41,499.Figures on Sunday are usually smaller due to a delay in processing over the weekend.There were no new deaths in Scotland for the fourth consecutive day. Wales and Northern Ireland each had no new fatalities for the third straight day.Scotland reported 123 new cases, taking the total number of positive infections to 20,318. The Mail says that 1,715 people tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday, the biggest daily rise in 12 weeks. But the death toll continues to fall. And 40 B&H Please A reader has an amusing story. A surreal scene, recounted to me by my elderly neighbour as he queued to pay for his groceries at the local store.The chap ahead of him (fully masked up) got to the till and said to the girl at the checkout “and 40 B&H please…”It’s a strange world we live in! Perhaps the chap had heard that smokers are at a lower ...