A further 77 people in the UK have died with coronavirus, new government figures show.
That means 46,706 people had died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK.
Separate figures published by the UK's statistics agencies show there have been 56,800 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
The Department of Health also says new cases of the virus have also climbed by 1,009.
Overall, a total of 313,798 cases have been confirmed since the beginning of the outbreak earlier this year.
The number of new coronavirus cases has hovered above 1,000 for three out of the last four days.
The stubbornly high rate of coronavirus transmissions is proving a major headache for the government amid fears of a second wave of the virus.
Schools are set to reopen in just a few weeks with teacher unions saying the plans have come to soon.
A high proportion of the deaths continue to be in the care sector and not in hospitals.
The Government was "asleep at the wheel" while dealing with the needs of the care sector during the pandemic, MPs heard today, while the needs of the NHS were dealt with "pretty rapidly".
Health leaders spoke of concerns about guidance on shielding and social distancing being confusing for older people, which led to some healthy over-70s shielding unnecessarily and some too frightened to visit the town centre.
While issues with personal protective equipment (PPE) and testing still persist in the care sector, MPs on the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coronavirus heard the NHS received a better response to their concerns.
Speaking at the virtual meeting on Wednesday, Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said: "We certainly felt that in terms of PPE, we very quickly flagged that there was a problem and we then did a very concerted piece of work, working with the Government and with NHS England for improvement.
"But certainly for our sector, and I accept it absolutely wasn't the case for the social care sector, the primary care sector and for example the hospice sector... we felt the Government and NHS England did respond pretty rapidly to the feedback that we were giving them."
On testing, Mr Hopson said there needed to be a "fit for purpose" testing regime that needed to be in place by winter.
