The UK has recorded another 516 deaths in the past 24 hours, the second day running the number has been below 600. But new cases have soared to 20,964 - one of the highest daily totals of new infections recorded.
Today's daily figures from the Department of Health records deaths in all settings, including hospitals, care homes and the community.
There have been 113,651 cases of coronavirus recorded in the last seven days alone, and 2,986 deaths. Between March 2 and December 9, 2020, there have been 63,076 deaths within 28 days of a positive Coronavirus test.
Between January 31 and December 10, there have been 1,787,783 people who have had a confirmed positive test result. So far this week, Wednesday saw 533 deaths recorded and 16,578 new