The UK's daily coronavirus hospital deaths have increased by 208, as a week-on-week Saturday decline continues.
A further 185 patients have died in England, 12 in Scotland, 7 in Wales and 4 in Northern Ireland in the latest 24 hour period, according to official figures.
This compares to 293 fatalities last Saturday - amounting to a 30 percent dip - and 355 on February 20 and 513 on February 13.
Today's is the lowest Saturday death toll since Boxing Day when 191 deaths were recorded, however, only figures for England and Wales were released that day.
The last time it was higher than today before that was October 17 when there were 108 deaths.
It shows the country is continuing to head in the right direction in its fight against the virus.
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The total number of confirmed deaths reported in hospitals is now at 84,276 across Britain, NHS England said today.
All patients recorded in the latest tally were aged between 42 and 96, with all except six, aged between 54 and 84, having known underlying health conditions.
The deaths were between December 31 and March 5.
There were 40 other deaths reported with no positive Covid-19 test result.
Meanwhile, the UK continues to lead by example with its vaccine rollout ahead of school pupils returning to classrooms on Monday in England in the first stage of Boris Johnson's roadmap to recovery.
As of March 4, 21,358,815 people across the country have had their first vaccine dose, after jabs began almost three months ago.
It comes following reports yesterday that the UK's coronavirus R rate has risen slightly to 0.7-0.9 - despite cases falling to their lowest level since September.
Figures show the infection rate has risen from 0.6-0.9 a day after it was revealed confirmed cases of coronavirus in England are at their lowest level since September after a 19 per cent drop in a week.
It marks the first rise in R rate in seven weeks, when it rose from 1.0 on January 8 to 1.2 on January 15.
The growth rate means the number of new infections is shrinking by between 3 per cent to 5 per cent every day.
Falling death rates have also been recorded this week.
