The UK's coronavirus death toll has risen by 181 - a drop of 25 per cent from a week ago.
Today's figures are a reduction from the numbers on Thursday, March 4, when the death toll rose by 242.
A month ago, on Thursday, February 11, 678 people lost their lives to Covid-19.
Statistics also show that the UK has registered 6,753 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
That is a rise from the 6,573 new cases reported last Thursday.
Figures from the Government dashboard showed that 190 people died yesterday.
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It was reported earlier today that the nation's coronavirus hospital death toll has increased by 202.
England reported 159 new fatalities, Scotland had 22, Wales recorded 12 and Northern Ireland had nine.
By comparison, the tolls announced on recent Thursdays were 221 on March 4, 311 on February 25 and 386 on February 18.
The record number of hospital deaths announced in a single day was 1,185 on January 20.
In other news today, new figures show a third of England's population has Covid antibodies from either infection or vaccination.
Around 33 per cent have antibodies, which has more than doubled due to the jab roll out, Public Health England said.
Just 15 per cent are from infections alone, according to the body's Covid-19 Surveillance Report.
The weekly report relates to data between March 1 and 7, as well as some indicators of daily data up to Tuesday.
Figures show of the 344 new acute respiratory infection incidents 85 came from workplaces.
Nearly 60 of those had at least one linked case that tested positive for Covid, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson's lockdown roadmap was rolled out.
The report adds that there have been continued declines in reported outbreaks as well as hospitalisations and ICU admissions.
But it also emerged today that summer holidays face a fresh threat after Wales' First Minister said he is pushing for some border restrictions to stay.
Mark Drakeford said the idea of allowing holidays like before the pandemic in two months’ time "fills me with horror" - despite hopes they could resume from May 17.
He told the i newspaper: "The idea that we will have international travel back as it was before in the middle of May fills me with horror, really.
"Because I just think there is such a risk that it will lead to the reimportation of the virus just as we’ve all worked so hard to get it under control."
He added some border restrictions should stay in place over the summer, according to the newspaper.
And he warned the second wave of coronavirus in Wales had been "very significantly driven by people coming back from France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, bringing the virus with them".
Foreign non-essential travel and domestic breaks with other households could be allowed from May 17 at the earliest for people living in England.
Boris Johnson has previously said roadmap dates could be pushed back if cases are surging or a new variant of coronavirus enters circulation.
