The UK's coronavirus hospital death toll has increased to 29,571 after 180 more deaths were reported in 24 hours.
A 12-year-old child with an underlying health condition was among the latest victims in England as the UK saw its lowest daily total on a Saturday since the Covid-19 lockdown was announced on March 23.
England reported 157 new deaths, Scotland had 16, Wales recorded six and Northern Ireland had one as the hospital toll continues to trend downwards.
The daily rise of 180 is down considerably from the previous Saturday totals of 244 on May 16, 252 on May 9, 469 on May 2, 797 on April 25, 885 on April 18 and 917 on April 11.
The Department of Health's latest official count of 36,393 fatalities in all settings, including care homes and private residences, will be updated later.
However, Britain's true toll is more than 45,000 fatalities, according to the latest available data based on death certificates mentioning Covid-19, including suspected cases, in all four nations.
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NHS England has announced 157 new deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 25,545.
It said the latest victims were aged between 12 and 100.
Seven of the 157 patients had no known underlying health condition.
Those seven patients were aged between 57 and 88, said NHS England.
The breakdown by region is as follows:
North East and Yorkshire - 36
Midlands - 30
North West - 23
South East - 22
London - 19
East - 17
South West - 10
Of the 157 new deaths announced on Saturday:
- 30 occurred on May 22
- 81 occurred on May 21
- 19 occurred on May 20
The figures also show 24 of the new deaths took place between May 1 and May 19, and the remaining three deaths took place in April with the earliest new death on April 22.
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 891.
Of the 25,545 confirmed reported deaths so far in hospitals in England of people who tested positive for Covid-19, 13,507 (53%) have been people aged 80 and over while 9,814 (38%) were aged 60-79.
A further 2,026 (8%) were aged 40-59, with 182 (1%) aged 20-39 and 16 (0.06%) aged 0-19, according to NHS England.
The number of deaths announced so far by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust stands at 884.
This is the highest number for any trust in England.
Barts Health NHS Trust has announced 591 deaths and London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust has announced 576 deaths.
Six trusts have announced between 400 and 500 deaths:
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (488)
- The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (480)
- The University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust (463)
- Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (416)
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (411)
- Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (408).
Scotland's coronavirus death toll risen to 2,261, according to the latest figures.
It marks an increase of 16 on the previous day when the figure was 2,245.
The Health Protection Scotland statistics also indicate 15,041 people have now tested positive for the virus north of the border, up by 72 from 14,969 on Friday.
As of Friday night there were 841 cases in hospital with 36 of those in intensive care along with another 14 with suspected Covid-19.
In comparison, at the First Minister's briefing on Friday, there were a total of 1,257 patients in hospital with coronavirus - 874 of them have been confirmed as having the virus and 383 suspected.
Greater Glasgow and Clyde continues to be the health board with the most confirmed cases (3,865) and had 379 people in hospital as of midnight.
There have been 2,649 cases in Lothian, with 162 in hospital, and 1,645 cases in Tayside where there are just 13 people in hospital.
On May 22 there were 484 adult care homes with a current case of suspected Covid-19, nearly half of the country's total (45%).
The number of cumulative cases of suspected coronavirus in care homes is 5,593 - up 61 from Friday.
Wales' death toll increased by six to 1,260 on Saturday. It also reported 185 new cases, taking its total to 13,169.
The number of people who have died after testing positive for coronavirus in Northern Ireland has risen to 505 after one more death was reported by the Department of Health.
The department also reported a further 41 cases of confirmed Covid-19, bringing the total number of positive cases in Northern Ireland to 4,545.
The number of people tested for the virus over the last 24 hours was 1,183.
The latest figures came amid a row over Dominic Cummings' lockdown trip from his London home to his parents' house in Durham, which was revealed by a joint investigation by the Mirror and the Guardian.
Durham police said officers contacted the owners of a property on March 31 - more than a week after the lockdown had been imposed by the Prime Minister and days after Mr Cummings developed coronavirus symptoms - after being told that a person had travelled from London to the northern city.
The person was "present and self-isolating" in part of the house, and officers explained self-isolation and essential travel rules "to the family".
Chief aide Mr Cummings claims he "behaved reasonably and legally" when he made the journey of more than 250 miles as his boss, Boris Johnson, urged Britons to stay at home to save lives.
When a reporter suggested to him outside his London home that the trip to Durham did not look good, he replied: "Who cares about good looks?
"It's a question of doing the right thing. It's not about what you guys think."
Mr Johnson has come under pressure to sack his top adviser, but Downing Street backed Mr Cummings and appeared to accuse the police of lying.
A spokesman for No10 said: "Owing to his wife being infected with suspected coronavirus and the high likelihood that he would himself become unwell, it was essential for Dominic Cummings to ensure his young child could be properly cared for.
"His sister and nieces had volunteered to help so he went to a house near to but separate from his extended family in case their help was needed.
"His sister shopped for the family and left everything outside.
"At no stage was he or his family spoken to by the police about this matter, as is being reported.
"His actions were in line with coronavirus guidelines. Mr Cummings believes he behaved reasonably and legally."
Durham Police and Crime Commissioner Steve White said officers "acted appropriately" in relation to Mr Cummings' visit to the county.
In a statement, the former head of the Police Federation in England and Wales said it was "most unwise" for the Downing Street adviser to have travelled when "known to be infected".
In other developments, businesses will be told by Chancellor Rishi Sunak that they will have to pay at least a fifth of the wages of furloughed workers by August, according to a report in the Times.
The so-called R-number, the average number of people that will contract coronavirus from an infected person, was between 0.7 and 1.0 across the UK two to three weeks ago - slightly higher than the last rate declared by ministers.
Councils have urged people to stay away from beaches and other beauty spots this bank holiday weekend to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Beaches became crowded earlier in the week and people were found to be breaching social distancing rules.
Temperatures are set to rise to 26C or above on Monday.
