People walk in the sunshine in Covent Garden, London
(Picture: PA)Covid deaths have fallen as 26 have been reported at the start of this week in the latest government data available on Monday.
In comparison, 61 deaths were recorded on Sunday and 93 deaths were reported on Saturday following on from more than 100 deaths on Friday.
Also, the latest figures on Monday showed UK has recorded 28,438 new daily coronavirus cases.
As the new infection rates remains in the 20,000s, the vaccination rollout in the UK remains to be a success.
More than 47 million people in the UK have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine so far.
The latest death toll comes hours after Professor Neil Ferguson, an infectious disease modeller and epidemiologist from Imperial College London, warned of a large Covid wave in the autumn.
The professor said the UK could still see “quite substantial transmission going into the autumn and coming up to the winter”.
Prof Ferguson told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme case numbers remain “quite high” at about 30,000 a day which he also said was a “slightly sobering situation” going into September.
The former member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) explained we still “have the potential of quite a large wave of infection in September, October” when life returns to normal.
In September time, children will go back to school and workers will be travelling into the office.
