The UK's official Covid-19 death toll has risen by one to 41,499. Data released this afternoon by the Department of Health revealed that 1,715 new cases have been confirmed in the past 24 hours.
There are currently 764 Covid-19 patients in hospital, with 60 in ventilator beds. Earlier today health authorities confirmed a further three hospital deaths, bringing the number of coronavirus patients to die in hospitals to 34,199.
This includes people who died in previous days. The deaths were reported from the East of England, the North West and the South West, with Wales, Scotland and Nothern Ireland all reporting zero fatalities in hospitals in the past 24 hours.