The number of Covid-19 patients to die in the UK is has passed 36,000 after a further 338 fatalities were reported.
Of these, 233 happened in hospitals, with the overall number of deaths now reaching 36,042.
Health authorities have confirmed there were 187 deaths in hospitals in England, nine in Wales, seven in Northern Ireland and 37 in Scotland linked to the virus.
A 14-year-old with underlying health conditions was among those who died in England, the heartbreaking data reveals.
The Department of Health confirmed that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic has now passed 250,000.
More than 2,600 new cases were identified yesterday.
The tragic daily number of deaths is 90 less than it was last Thursday, when 428 deaths were confirmed.
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NHS England said hospital patients who died were aged between 14 and 98.
Six, aged between 46 and 94, had no known underlying health condition.
The number of deaths of patients with Covid-19 by region are:
- East of England - 25
- London - 19
- Midlands - 36
- North East & Yorkshire - 33
- North West - 45
- South East - 24
- South West - 5
- Scotland - 37
- Wales - 9
- Northern Ireland - 7
Yesterday the number of confirmed hospital deaths stood at 28,996, bringing the new total to 29,236.
A week ago today there were 256 hospital deaths.
A further 2,615 people were confirmed to have coronavirus yesterday, bringing the total number of cases since the outbreak to 250,908.
In Scotland, which today reported 37 deaths, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon outlined a four-phase plan to lift the lockdown, starting next week.
Scotland's Covid-19 death toll hit 2,221, with the First Minister also revealing that the R number is still between 0.7 and 1, having been as high as 4 in March.
Outdoor activities including golf, tennis and fishing are set to resume, with people allowed to meet another household in parks while observing social distancing.
Northern Ireland's death toll has risen to 501 after seven more deaths were reported by the Department of Health.
Earlier today drug firm AstraZeneca today said it could make up to a billion doses of a potential vaccine under development in Oxford.
Up to 30 million doses of the vaccine being worked on by AstraZeneca and Oxford University could be available to the UK by September, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has previously said.
It comes as the global coronavirus case count passed the five million mark after the largest daily jump in global infections.
NHS England releases updated figures each day showing the dates of every coronavirus-related death in hospitals in England, often including previously uncounted deaths that took place several days or even weeks ago.
This is because of the time it takes for deaths to be confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19, for post-mortem examinations to be processed and for data from the tests to be validated.
