Health department figures showed a further 813 people had died in hospital on Saturday after contracting COVID-19, pushing the official number of fatalities to 20,319.
The UK's official coronavirus death toll passed the milestone of 20,000 on Saturday, which the Home Secretary Priti Patel described as "a deeply tragic and moving moment".
Health department figures showed a further 813 people had died in hospital after contracting COVID-19, pushing the official number of fatalities to 20,319.
The medical director of NHS England Stephen Powis and the UK's chief scientific advisor, Sir Patrick Vallance, had earlier said that keeping the number of fatalities lower than 20,000 would be "a good outcome". "The nation today will be deeply moved by