The number of people in the UK who have died after testing positive for Covid-19 is 556 higher than the equivalent total announced yesterday.
But Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the daily press briefing that 111 people had died from coronavirus since yesterday. The reason for the difference in these two figures is to do with how deaths are being incorporated into historic data retrospectively.
Yesterday's cumulative total announced by the Department of Health was 38,489, which is 556 below today's cumulative total of 39,045.
But since yesterday, 445 deaths have been added to the historic data. These additional deaths are linked to cases that have been identified through testing that has been carried out by commercial partners, rather