Coronavirus daily deaths down to 189 as vaccines set to be rolled out tomorrow

pThe UKapos;s coronavirus death toll in all settings has increased by 189 in the past 24 hours, bringing the UK total to 61,434. /p pThis is down on last Mondayapos;s death toll of 205 and the 206 reported on Monday, November 23./p pThe Department of Health has also announced that new cases have increased by 14,718 in all settings, including hospitals, care homes and the community./p pIt brings the total number of cases in the UK to 1,737,960./p pThis is up on last Monday, when 12,330 more cases were recorded, but down on the 15,450 of November 23./p video id=6214529293001 title=FULL LIST OF 50 HOSPITALS TO ROLL OUT CORONAVIRUS VACCINE poster=https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4221396001/da908b5b-113e-456d-8b37-9719b3bb8192/feab4932-c35a-4bec-a75f-665a03f0cb40/1280x720/match/image.jpgsource type=video/mp4 src=https://house-fastly-signed-eu-west-1-prod.brightcovecdn.com/media/v1/pmp4/static/clear/4221396001/da908b5b-113e-456d-8b37-9719b3bb8192/c3b287ad-3153-437b-893e-aa42960d968a/main.mp4?fastly_token=NWZjZWFlNGFfNzA2ZDhiZDc0NzY1ZmQwMWFiNDI3YzMxZTBiYjE4YTFmZjRkNTA2ZmY3ZjAxZTMzOTM4OTE3NGJjOWJjYzA5MV8vL2hvdXNlLWZhc3RseS1zaWduZWQtZXUtd2VzdC0xLXByb2QuYnJpZ2h0Y292ZWNkbi5jb20vbWVkaWEvdjEvcG1wNC9zdGF0aWMvY2xlYXIvNDIyMTM5NjAwMS9kYTkwOGI1Yi0xMTNlLTQ1NmQtOGIzNy05NzE5YjNiYjgxOTIvYzNiMjg3YWQtMzE1My00MzdiLTg5M2UtYWE0Mjk2MGQ5NjhhL21haW4ubXA0//video p/ p/ pTolls on Mondays tend to be lower due to a weekend lag in reporting fatalities./p pYesterday, the daily death toll increased by by 231 in a slight week-on-week increase./p pCases across the UK increased by 17,272 yesterday - rising from the 12,155 recorded in the same period last week./p pMeanwhile on Saturday, the death toll rose by 397 - the lowest Saturday toll in weeks and 82 fewer than the previous Saturday. Another 15,539 new Covid-19 cases were reported./p img src=https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article23124185.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/1_JS220539927.jpg title=Clinical staff wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as they care for a patient at the Intensive Care unit at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge data-portal-copyright=Getty/ pTodayapos;s figures suggest the UKapos;s second wave of cases and fatalities has stabilised, while remaining stubbornly in three figures./p pFor comparison, Monday, November 16 saw 213 deaths - which was the highest Monday death toll since May 11, when 222 fatalities were reported./p pOver the last seven days alone, the DoH reports there have been 2,986 deaths from a data-content-type=section-topic data-link-tracking=InArticle|Link href=https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/coronavirus-1coronavirus/a in the UK, and 108,306 new cases./p pSeparate figures published by the UKapos;s statistics agencies for deaths where Covid-19 has been mentioned on the death certificate, together with additional data on deaths that have occurred in recent days, show there have now been 77,000 deaths involving Covid-19 in the UK./p img src=https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article23129520.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_SWNS_MCR_MARCH_02.jpg title=Hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters gather in Manchester City centre, as they continue to protest against the Government, yesterday data-portal-copyright=Lee McLean/SWNS/ pEarlier today, the NHS reported deaths in hospital settings only have rose by 202 in the past 24 hours./p pIn England the number of a data-content-type=section-topic data-link-tracking=InArticle|Link href=https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/coronavirus-1coronavirus/a patients who died in hospital settings in the past 24 hours rose by 190, Wales recorded two more fatalities, Scotland recorded one more death and Northern Ireland lost nine more patients./p pYesterday, a further 225 lives were lost to Covid-19 in UK hospitals, health authorities confirmed./p pLast Monday, November 30, the#xA0;hospital death toll increased by 199./p pBy comparison, the number of hospital deaths announced on recent Mondays was 190 on November 23, 212 on November 16, 185 on November 9, 129 on November 2 and 103 on October 26./p pScotland has recorded one death from coronavirus and 677 positive tests in the past 24 hours, Nicola Sturgeon said./p pIt brings the death toll under this measure - of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days - to 3,917./p pMs Sturgeon said 100,783 people have now tested positive in Scotland, up from 100,106 the previous day./p pTodayapos;s figures come as care home workers, NHS staff and people aged 80 and over will begin receiving the coronavirus vaccine from Tuesday./p pThe death toll in the UK is higher than the other worst-affected countries in Europe and the number of people killed by coronavirus is only higher in the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico./p pBack in April, the UKapos;s chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, told MPs that the aim was to keep deaths below 20,000, describing this as a quot;good outcomequot;./p