The total number of lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has now exceeded four million since the outbreak began, according to the Government’s dashboard.
The Government said a further 758 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Friday, bringing the UK total to 116,287.
Separate figures published by the UK’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 134,000 deaths involving Covid-19 in the UK.
The Government also said that, as of 9am on Friday, there had been a further 15,144 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.
It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 4,013,799.
The reproduction number, or R value, of coronavirus transmission across the UK is between 0.7 and 0.9, according to the latest Government figures.
Last week, it was between 0.7 and 1.
R represents the average number of people each Covid-19 positive person goes on to infect.
When the figure is above 1, an outbreak can grow exponentially, but when it is below 1 it means the epidemic is shrinking.
An R number between 0.7 and 0.9 means that, on average, every 10 people infected will infect between seven and nine other people.
