The UK's Covid-19 death toll has risen by 101.
A further 4,802 people have tested positive - down from 6,609 last Friday, and a large drop from 12,027 a month ago.
A week ago the Department of Health confirmed 175 Covid fatalities, while a fortnight ago the figure was 236.
A month ago, on February 19, 533 coronavirus deaths were announced.
It comes as encouraging new data shows cases are falling across the UK.
Today the government's SAGE committee confirmed the R number, which measures how fast the virus is spreading, had fallen to between 0.6 and 0.8.
This means every 10 infected people pass the virus on to six to eight others - so the number of people with Covid at any one time is falling.
But England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said yesterday Covid-19 was still a "common disease" that was "dangerous" for many people.
Today health authorities announced a further 94 people had died in UK hospitals - 74 in England, nine in Wales, three in Northern Ireland and eight in Scotland.
Figures published earlier today reveal that just one in 340 people in England's community now have Covid-19.
The Office for National Statistics said cases continued to fall in the week to March 13, down from one in 270 people a week earlier - and a height of 1 in 50 around New Year.
The weekly infection survey data is the first since schools reopened in England on March 8, but only covers the first few days after pupils went back.
Scientists have repeatedly warned it takes three to four weeks to assess the impact of any easing of lockdown on case rates.
The data comes from the ONS's Infection Survey, which is seen as the most reliable measure of how coronavirus is spreading in the community.
Today's survey estimated between 142,000 to 179,400 people had Covid-19 at any point in the week to March 13, down from a range of 180,200 to 222,900 a week earlier.
The ONS said: "Our modelling suggests that the percentage of people testing positive in England has continued to decrease in the week ending 13 March 2021."
In Wales, around one in 430 people are estimated to have had Covid-19 in the week to March 13 (down from one in 365).
The figure was one in 315 in Northern Ireland (similar to the week before) and around one in 275 in Scotland, up from one in 320.
the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said the AstraZeneca vaccine was "safe and effective" and its benefits in preventing Covid-19 hospital admission and death greatly outweighed potential risks.
The EMA has, however, been unable to say definitively that the jab is not linked to "extremely rare" blood clots on the brain, of which there have been 18 reports among millions of people vaccinated.
The World Health Organisation and the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have said that the jab is safe and have encouraged people to take up their vaccine appointments.
Boris Johnson, 56, told a Downing Street press conference on Thursday: "The Oxford jab is safe and the Pfizer jab is safe.
"The thing that isn't safe is catching Covid, which is why it is so important that we all get our jabs as soon as our turn comes."
