The UK's overall coronavirus death toll has increased to 45,233 with a further 114 more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours.
It is more than double the 48 deaths that were recorded last Friday (July 10). The Friday before (July 3) recorded an increase of 137.
This week the increases have been 11 on Monday, 138 on Tuesday, 85 on Wednesday, 66 yesterday and 114 today. The figures, released by the Department of Health and Social Care, includes fatalities that happened weeks or even months ago that have only been added to the official statistics in the previous 24 hours.
Of the 45,233 deaths 40,640 have been in England, 556 in Northern Ireland, 2,491 in Scotland and 1,546 in Wales. This morning Boris Johnson said he will broadly lift the