The UK's coronavirus death toll has increased by 33 - the lowest rise on a Sunday since early October - with the number of new cases jumping by 15 per cent in a week.
Britain set a new daily record for vaccinations for the third day in a row, with 873,784 first and second jabs in the latest 24-hour period for a total of 29,859,742.
There have now been 126,155 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.
By comparison, the daily tolls announced on recent Sundays were 52 on March 14, 82 on March 7, 144 on February 28, and 215 on February 21.
The UK recorded a further 5,312 cases, up from a total of 4,618 a week ago.
The latest figures came as a Government adviser warned that vaccine supply issues could result in the UK’s vaccination programme being “delayed slightly".
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However, Professor Jeremy Brown said due to the vaccination programme being “ahead of schedule” it will likely only fall back to the original timetable.
Professor Brown, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme: “It does look like we have been making a vaccine programme that is doing almost five million a week, which would be a fantastic result if we could maintain that.
“But it has always been the supply of vaccine that has been the concern that might delay things, and, yes, I suspect our vaccine programme will be delayed slightly compared to where we thought it might have been a few weeks ago.
“But then we are then ahead of schedule, so we are probably going to fall back to the original schedule and end up with everyone who is an adult being offered a vaccine by towards the middle to end of the summer.”
Earlier, the UK's coronavirus hospital death toll increased by 42.
England reported 35 deaths, Wales had six and Northern Ireland recorded one.
A further 35 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths reported in hospitals to 85,765, NHS England said on Sunday.
Patients were aged between 37 and 98 and all except two, aged 37 and 88, had known underlying health conditions.
The deaths were between May 18 and March 20.
There were 20 other deaths reported with no positive Covid-19 test result.
Public Health Wales reported six further deaths, taking the total in the country since the start of the pandemic to 5,488.
There have been a further 196 cases of coronavirus in Wales, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 207,842.
Northern Ireland's death toll increased by one to 2,104, the country's Department of Health said.
A further 125 cases were detected for a pandemic total of 115,932.
Scotland has reported no new coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, according to latest data.
There have been 532 new cases of Covid-19 reported, with a daily test positivity rate of 2.9 per cent, up from 2.7 per cent on Saturday.
