The UK's coronavirus death toll has risen by 175 - a drop of 76 per cent from a month ago.
Today's figures are a significant reduction from the numbers on Friday, February 12, when the death toll rose by 758.
A week ago, on Friday, March 5, 236 people lost their lives.
Statistics also show that the UK has registered 6,609 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
That is a slight rise from the 5,947 new cases recorded seven days ago.
Figures from the Government dashboard showed that 181 people died yesterday.
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It was reported earlier that the nation's coronavirus hospital death toll has increased by 162.
England reported 132 fatalities, Scotland had 17, Wales recorded 12 and Northern Ireland had one.
The total is a 68 per cent drop from this date last month, when 508 hospital deaths were recorded.
The latest figures come as it is revealed that the UK's coronavirus R rate could be as low as 0.6.
The reproduction number in the country is between 0.6 and 0.8 - down from 0.7 to 0.9 last week.
The latest figure means, on average, every 10 people with the virus will infect between six and eight others.
The north-east and Yorkshire has the highest R rate in the country, with the number ranging from 0.7 to 0.9.
However, in the south-west it is between 0.5 and 0.8.
It also emerged today that one in 270 people had coronavirus in England in the week up to March 6.
This is the lowest rate since September, according to Office for National Statistics figures.
The survey estimated 200,600 people had the virus in the community in the first week of March, the most recent available data.
This is down from around one in 220 - or 248,100 people - in the previous week.
It marks the lowest figure since September 24, when 116,600 people were estimated to have the virus.
But it was also reported this morning that people from England won't be allowed to go on holiday in Wales over Easter.
Mark Drakeford, the Welsh First Minister, said he hoped tourism would be open to people outside of the country by the summer.
But this is only if the coronavirus situation continued to improve.
He told the BBC: "At Easter time, Welsh people will be able to travel for holidays over Easter within Wales, and to self-contained accommodation.
"The rules in England will not permit that.
"The Prime Minister's road map says that for the weeks after March 29, people should minimise travel, there are to be no holidays, and people won't be allowed to stay away from home overnight.
"If it won't be safe to stay overnight in England, then obviously it would not be safe for people to travel into Wales."
Easter Sunday is on April 4.
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