MORE than 38,000 people across the UK have tested positive for coronavirus, health chiefs have said.
The Department of Health and Social Care announced that as of 9am on Friday (April 3), a total of 173,784 people have been tested for the virus.
Of those, 38,168 tested positive.
As of 5pm on April 2, of those hospitalised in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus, 3,605 have died.
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