Nearly 1.5 million people have now been vaccinated against Covid-19 in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said, including 1.26 million in England.
Meanwhile, a further 1,162 people have died in the UK within 28 days of testing positive for the virus - the highest daily reported total since 21 April when 1,224 were recorded.
It brings the overall toll to 78,508. The official figures continue to be affected by a lag in the publication of recent data and contain some deaths that took place over the Christmas and New Year period that have only just been reported.
Separate figures published by the UK's statistics agencies for deaths where Covid-19 has been mentioned on the death certificate, together with additional data on deaths that