The UK's coronavirus death toll has reached 28,446 including deaths in care homes and in the wider community, an increase of 315 in the last 24 hours.
Michael Gove today confirmed another 315 had lost their lives from Covid-19 across Britain - a big drop in fatalities compared to Saturday's figure of 621.
The numbers now include fatalities in hospitals, care homes, and the wider comminuty. Stephen Powis, National Medical Director of NHS England, told the daily No10 press conference: “It does appear that we are past the peak of deaths too - we are beginning to see a decline in the number of deaths.” Speaking at Sunday's Downing Street briefing, Mr Gove said there had been 1,206,405 coronavirus tests in the UK as of 9am on Sunday May 3,