The UK has recorded the lowest daily death toll this year and the lowest number of new infections since October. A total of 230 deaths were recorded with 9,765 new cases in the 24 hours to Monday, official figures showed.
Last Monday, the national death toll rose by 333 and 14,101 new infections were recorded. On Monday February 1, 409 people died from Covid-19 and 18,607 tested positive for the virus, compared to 592 deaths and 22,195 cases the week before that.
Monday death tolls have typically been lower throughout the pandemic due to weekend reporting lags. Today's figures also showed more than 15.3million have received a dose of a coronavirus vaccine.