UK records just two Covid deaths and 1,770 infections
The UK has recorded two coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours – one of the lowest tolls since the pandemic began.
The country also recorded 1,770 new cases on Sunday.
Lower case and death figures tend to be recorded at the weekends and on Mondays due to a lag in reporting – with just one death being recorded last Monday.
The latest figures bring the number of confirmed cases in the UK since the pandemic began to 4,434,860 and the official death toll to 127,605.
But separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have been 152,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
Since early March 2020, the UK has recorded at least one death a day – and sometimes well over 1,000.
But deaths and infections are now dropping significantly, despite the gradual easing of lockdown, with the vaccine rollout continuing to progress rapidly.
More than a third of adults have now had both jabs, with more than 53 million vaccines being administered in total in the UK.
35.4 million of those are first doses and 17.7 million second doses.
There have been no further deaths of patients who have tested positive for Covid-19 in Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales in the past 24 hours.
Northern Ireland’s Department of Health said there had been an additional 98 cases of the virus confirmed in the last 24-hour reporting period.
Scotland saw a further 200 and Wales 54.
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