The number of coronavirus deaths in UK hospitals has increased by 419 as senior doctors warned the NHS is "stretched to the limit".
Today, a further 365 deaths were recorded in England, seven more in Scotland, 14 more deaths were reported in Northern Ireland and Wales said there had been a further 33 fatalities.
Figures could be lower than normal due to a lag in reporting data over the bank holiday yesterday.
This compares with last Tuesday, December 22, when 488 people were reported to have lost their lives in UK hospitals.
The previous Tuesday, December 15, 332 more fatalities were recorded.
On Tuesday December 8, 403 deaths were reported and on Tuesday December 1, another 422 deaths were confirmed.
Last night the UK recorded more than 40,000 cases in a day for the first time as the country struggles to combat a contagious new variant of Covid.
And hospitals are today warning they are close to being overwhelmed, with some treating patients in ambulances and others considering erecting emergency tents outside.
Scotland recorded seven deaths from coronavirus between December 25 and 29, Scottish Government figures have shown.
It brings the death toll under this measure - of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days - to 4,467.
The figures showed 1,895 new cases of Covid-19 were reported on December 29.
The latest statistics show 122,786 people have now tested positive in Scotland, up from 120,891 the previous day.
The daily test positivity rate is 14.4%, up from 12.2% on the previous day.
There are 1,092 people in hospital confirmed to have the virus, and of these patients, 65 are in intensive care.
Today it was announced there have been a further 2,510 cases of coronavirus in Wales, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 144,425.
Public Health Wales reported another 33 deaths, taking the total in Wales since the start of the pandemic to 3,416.
The latest figures come as hospitals are struggling to cope in their worst week of the Covid-19 crisis so far.
Coronavirus admissions are now higher than in the peak of the first wave of the pandemic.
A record daily high of 41,385 new cases was recorded on Monday , with some patients treated in ambulances as no hospital beds were available.
Dr Andrew Lansdown, a consultant endocrinologist at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, said: "It's starting to sound a bit like a cliche but it really is true that these are unprecedented times, we really have felt stretched to the limit.
"In the past week or two things have become relentless, we're under extreme pressure and the numbers of patients coming through now with coronavirus are massive."
Head of NHS England Sir Simon Stevens said: “We are back in the eye of the storm.”
Nightingale hospitals could soon be utilised as admissions for Covid-19 surged higher than during the first peak.
NHS Providers said some trusts were seeing three times the number of admissions as during the first wave amid reports of wards too full to take patients arriving in ambulances.
Some health leaders warned that the NHS does not have enough staff to man them.
