The UK's Covid-19 death toll has risen to 36,675, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed. It is a rise of 282 since yesterday, figures from the Department of Health show.
Earlier today the UK's hospital death toll passed 29,500, with a 12-year-old child among the latest casualties. In the 24-hour period up to 9am on Saturday, 116,585 tests were carried out or dispatched, with 2,959 positive results.
Overall a total of 3,348,507 tests have been carried out and 257,154 cases have been confirmed positive. Mr Shapps said the government will be working with businesses to find "creative" ways of reopening businesses while maintaining social distancing.