The number of coronavirus patients to die in UK hospitals has risen by 151.
Health authorities today announced the figure, which includes 122 deaths in England, 19 in Wales, three in Scotland and seven in Northern Ireland.
A week ago 137 hospital fatalities were confirmed, while a fortnight ago that figure was 90.
A month ago, on October 8, health authorities said 58 people had died after contracting Covid-19.
In the past 24 hours the number of confirmed cases passed 50 million, while the global death toll stands at around 1.25 million.
Latest Department of Health data puts the death toll in all settings at 48,888, although the virus has been mentioned on more than 62,000 since the start of the pandemic.
Earlier today the Welsh first minister called on all four nations in the UK to work together and figure out a single approach.
Mark Drakeford said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove had promised a four-nation meeting this coming week so that country leaders can "pool ideas, plan together and have a common approach to the Christmas period".
His comments come as Wales prepares to come out of a 17-day firebreak lockdown on Monday, while England continues in its month-long lockdown which ends at the start of December.
"I really hope that meeting materialises," Mr Drakeford told Sky News' Sophie Ridge On Sunday.
On whether he wanted to see families reunite over Christmas, he said: "The restrictions people have had to live with are incredibly difficult and demanding, and everybody is tried and fatigued of coronavirus.
"If we can offer respite over Christmas that is what we would want to do."
He added: "The only way to do that is for us to have that opportunity to meet and talk together.
"I really hope the UK Government is serious about this and make certain that those opportunities exist for us all."
Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has responded to the Government amending a slide which showed there could be up to 4,000 deaths a day linked to coronavirus by next month.
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, statistician and chairman of the Winton Centre for risk and evidence communication at the University of Cambridge, had previously described the data which was shared with the public to justify a second lockdown in England as a "mess".
Asked whether the Government is presenting "the scariest data" on Covid-19, Mr Raab told Sky: "No, look, we showed models which show what could happen if certain scenarios play out.
"We corrected the slide you referred to and it was the wealth of scientific information that comes forward... we tried to be as transparent as possible."
He added that "mistakes are made or facts have to be changed, but that is the point of transparency".
