Covid-19 has killed 865 more people in UK hospitals as the tragic pandemic death toll continues to mount.
In English hospitals 744 people died, 70 died in Scotland, 29 in Wales and 22 in Northern Ireland.
Yesterday 1,058 more deaths were added to the grim tally.
The record daily increase for hospital deaths is 1,185, which was set on January 20.
The second highest total was 1,176 on January 13 and the third highest was 1,143 exactly a week ago.
Today's death toll means 32% less people died than last Friday.
The youngest person to die without any underlying health conditions today was just 24-years-old.
The UK is currently enduring the worst period of the pandemic in terms of the number of people dying each day.
Last week the record for the number of people dying in all settings was broken twice.
Earlier this week the 100,000th death from Covid-19 in all UK settings was recorded.
Reacting to the news, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he took "full responsibility" for the government's actions, saying: "We truly did everything we could."
"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost," he said.
There is cause for some optimism however.
Yesterday a further 282,812 people have received the first dose of one of the available coronavirus vaccines across the UK.
The UK total now stands at 7,447,199.
At the same time coronavirus cases have plunged by 60 percent in the UK since the start of January, according to new data.
Since the peak of 69,000 daily cases at the turn of the year, cases have dipped considerably - while the highest risk areas are Liverpool, London, Birmingham and the Black Country.
According to the ZOE Covid Symptom Study UK Infection Survey figures, there are currently, an average of 28,645 daily new symptomatic cases in the UK, based on swab tests data from up to five days ago.
This compares to 34,133 daily new symptomatic cases a week ago, a decrease of 22 per cent and almost three times that since around January 1.
In terms of prevalence, on average 1 in 134 people in the UK currently have symptomatic Covid, the study claims.
The time lag between infection and death means the number of daily deaths should begin to fall significantly over the coming weeks.
