More than 7,000 new coronavirus cases have been recorded in the UK in the last 24 hours.This is only slightly less than yesterday's figures which were the highest ever amount recorded since the pandemic began.The number of deaths has also increased by 71 - the same as Tuesday's figure which was the highest daily total of deaths since July 1.The government said that, as of 9am on Tuesday, there had been a further 7,108 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, taking the overall number of