A further eighteen deaths have been recorded in the UK, as another 1,288 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed.
A total of 41,423 people have died in the UK within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, according to the Department of Health.
Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have now been 57,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
As of 9am on Saturday, a total of 324,601 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the UK - an increase of 1,288 since yesterday.
According to NHS England, a further six people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England.
That brings the total number of reported deaths in hospitals in England to 29,496.
The patients were aged between 79 and 93, and all had known underlying health conditions.
Another four deaths were reported with no positive Covid-19 test result.
Scotland has reported 123 new cases of coronavirus, with the number of confirmed infections topping three figures for the first time in three months.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the large number of cases as being “of concern”.
There were no new deaths reported among patients who have previously tested positive for the virus.
In Wales, one further death was recorded, bringing the total number of deaths to 1,590.
The latest figures come on the first day of tighter lockdown restrictions, which have been imposed for some parts of the north including Oldham and Blackburn.
Oldham Council leader Sean Fielding said that the local authority had more enforcement capacity to take action against people breaking the rules.
He told BBC Breakfast that at least one pub had been closed in the last 24 hours.
He added: "Part of our discussions with Government which helped us to avert the kind of economic lockdown of the kind in Leicester was a pledge around increasing the capacity in our enforcement teams so that we could take action where we had reports of businesses or premises or households not following the rules.
"So when we receive those reports we now have additional capacity around enforcement and compliance to take action, whether it’s fines, whether it’s closure orders or whatever.
"We have closed at least one pub in the last 24 hours."
