The number of people who have died from coronavirus in the UK has risen to 29,427.
Speaking at today's Downing Street briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab confirmed another 693 people had lost their lives from the disease across the country.
The death toll includes fatalities in hospitals, care homes, and the wider community.
Mr Raab added that as of 9am on Tuesday, there have been 1,383,842 tests in total after another 84,806 tests in the past 24 hours.
Of those tests, 4,406 new cases have been reported across Britain.
Earlier today, it was revealed that another 436 people in UK hospitals had lost their lives from Covid-19, taking the total to 24,780 - but the true total is far higher.
England reported 366 new deaths, Scotland had 44 and Wales recorded 26 - taking its toll past 1,000 - as the UK entered the seventh week of its lockdown.
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The daily number of deaths is up from 229 on Monday and 358 on Sunday, but a sharp increase was expected because many weekend deaths are not reported until Tuesday at the earliest.
With the UK past its peak, the Tuesday's total is down significantly from 653 a week ago on April 28, 873 on April 21, 744 on April 14 and 854 on April 7.
New data has suggested the UK has the highest death toll in Europe and the second highest in the world behind the US, and it could now be just hundreds shy of 40,000.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said 29,710 people had died of coronavirus in England and Wales as of April 24 - about 35% more than the figure reported by the Department of Health that day.
At least 140 frontline NHS and care workers have died during the pandemic.
The NHS said on Tuesday that 366 more coronavirus deaths have been confirmed in England, taking its total to 21,750.
Of the 366 new deaths announced:
- 66 occurred on Monday (May 4).
- 127 occurred on Sunday (May 3).
- 54 occurred on Saturday (May 2).
- 29 occurred last Friday (May 1).
The figures also show 85 of the new deaths took place in April while the remaining five deaths occurred in March, with the earliest new death taking place on March 19.
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.
The figures published today by NHS England show April 8 continues to have the highest number for the most hospital deaths occurring on a single day, with a current total of 871.
Elsewhere, Downing Street has said ministers are considering easing the coronavirus social-distancing restrictions on people meeting outdoors.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said they were looking at a range of possible "easements" - as well some toughening of the rules - ahead of the expected publication on Sunday of the Government's "roadmap" on the next phase of the Covid-19 response.
"We are looking at a range of possible easements to the social distancing measures. We are also looking at areas that need to be toughened," the spokesman said.
"Once we have the scientific evidence and we have completed the review process, we will be able to set out what those are."
