The number of lives lost to Covid-19 has risen by 64 to 125,580 - while the number of new cases has risen slightly compared to last week.
This afternoon the Department of Health said a further 5,089 people had tested positive for coronavirus - a small increase from the 4,712 confirmed cases a week ago.
Last Monday there were 65 confirmed fatalities, while a fortnight ago the figure was 104.
A month ago, on February 15, there were 230 deaths announced, meaning there has been a 72 per cent drop.
It is the lowest Monday death figure since October 5, when 19 people were confirmed to have died within 28 days of contracting the virus.
Latest data shows more than 8,000 people were being treated in hospital for Covid, with 1,110 on ventilation.
On Thursday last week, the most recent figure available, 531 people were admitted with coronavirus.
Reports have emerged claiming that Boris Johnson now admits he was wrong to delay putting the UK into lockdown last year.
The UK has the fifth-highest Covid death toll in the world after repeated indecision by the PM and ministers throughout the pandemic.
If he had his time again, sources close to the Prime Minister told The Telegraph he would act “harder, earlier and faster”.
An insider said the government "lost weeks", despite having an advance warning of the horrors of the pandemic from European countries such as Italy.
Only the USA, Brazil, Mexico and India have lost more citizens than the UK to the virus, with the country's official death toll last night standing at 125,516.
Germany, France and Italy have become the latest EU members to suspend the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine following advice from its national regulator.
Berlin's health ministry called it a "precaution" and there would be further investigation after reports of people suffering blood clots in the days and weeks after receiving a jab.
President Emmanuel Macron and the Italy Medicines Authority later confirmed France and Italy respectively are also suspending the vaccine.
At least nine countries, including Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Indonesia, have temporarily stopped using the vaccine.
It follows reports from Denmark and Norway of possible serious side-effects, including bleeding and blood clots.
The World Health Organisation (WHO), Boris Johnson and British experts have sought to reassure people about the safety of the vaccine.
