The UK coronavirus death toll has increased by 48, the latest official figures released today show. This brings the death toll across all settings including hospitals, care homes and the community to 44,650, the Department of Health said today.
The figure is a huge drop of nearly two-thirds week-on-week on last Friday's total of 137. It is also the lowest Friday increase since lockdown began.
This follows yesterday's figure of 85, which was the lowest Thursday rise since lockdown began. There were also a further 512 coronavirus infections recorded in the UK in the last 24 hours.
This brings the total number of cases across the UK to date to 288,133. And it marks another day in which the daily death toll has been below triple figures.