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Source: The Sun
A STAGGERING 6.6 million Brits may already have coronavirus, according to an app monitoring symptoms of people with suspected Covid-19.
Researchers from King's College London, who launched the Covid Symptom Tracker, say ten per cent of the 650,000 people who signed up to the app in the first 24 hours showed signs of the virus.
And if their statistic of one in every ten people is applied to the UK's population of 66million, it would mean that around 6.6 million people in the UK are currently suffering from coronavirus.
It comes as the number of cases of coronavirus in the UK last night rose to 9,529 - with the death toll now standing at 474.
King's College London launched the Covid Symptom Tracker earlier this week - claiming it was "clinically urgent" to understand how many people are infected after the Government stopped testing in the community in the first week of March.
Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology a King's, normally analyses the genetic factors behind disease with a group of 15,000 twins.
However, when the coronavirus outbreak put a stop to the work, he realised that the group could help scientists understand whether DNA was playing a part in who was getting Covid-19.