The UK's daily coronavirus hospital deaths have increased by 61 in the lowest Sunday rise since October.
A further 49 patients have died in England, two in Scotland, 10 in Wales and none in Northern Ireland in the latest 24 hour period, according to official figures.
This is down 45% compared to last Sunday which saw 111 deaths recorded and is the lowest Sunday in months after 178 deaths on February 28, 283 on February 21, 331 on February 14 and 454 on February 7.
Today's numbers show the lowest rise on a Sunday since October 25, when 90 people died.
Sunday and Monday's figures are usually lower due to a weekend lag.
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The patients in England who died were aged between 50 and 93 and all except three, aged between 62 and 89, had known underlying health conditions.
Yesterday daily hospital deaths across the UK stood at 133.
The news comes as the UK's statistics chief has warned that he is "no doubt" that there will be a further wave of Covid-19 infections in the autumn.
Professor Sir Ian Diamond, head of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), also said there is a lot of regional variation in terms of how many people have antibodies.
He issued the warning after England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said there were still risks to reopening society and the UK will experience another surge of cases at some point, potentially in late summer or through the autumn and winter.
Sir Ian said people need to understand how the data is moving forward and look at the impact of the "wonderful" vaccine rollout.
"But having said that, we need also to recognise that this is a virus that isn't going to go away," he told The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One.
"And I have no doubt that in the autumn there will be a further wave of infections."
Drive-through vaccination centres are being looked at as a tool to help put Brits on the road to freedom.
A pilot project saw 2,300 people receive the Covid jab in a single day – 360% more than in a clinic.
And the GP who masterminded the scheme says he could have vaccinated 6,000 people in a single weekend if he had more supplies.
Health bosses fear that unreliable vaccine supply could hamper any plans to scale up the scheme.
But the UK was this week boosted by news that up to 10 million extra doses of the Covid vaccine will be made available in the coming weeks.
Dr Richard West, senior partner at Woolpit Health Centre, came up with the idea for drive-through centres.
He said: “We could be vaccinating millions of people a week using drive-throughs. If the Government really wants to crack on and get us back to normal, this is the way forward.”
A handful of other drive-through vaccination centres are already operating across England, including in Kent, Hertfordshire and Warwickshire.
There is currently no national framework in England but mass drive-throughs have been set up in Scotland and Wales. Patients have to park up for 15 minutes after their jab in case they suffer any side-effects.
Richard Vautrey, from the British Medical Association, said: “Drive-through clinics are a good idea. Some GPs have used them for flu jabs. We should be running them for Covid if we can.”
