A further 40 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the death toll since the start of the outbreak to a total of 41,902.
Officials said the recorded fatalities were those who had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19.
It came as the government recorded a further 6,634 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus, taking the overall number of cases confirmed to 416,363. It is the highest daily total since the outbreak began.
Earlier, individual NHS bodies from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland recorded a total of 33 new coronavirus-related deaths in hospitals, including an 18-year-old.
Record rise in cases as four nations added to quarantine list-LIVE thirty of the deaths were in hospitals in England. two more people died in Scotland, one died in Wales and Northern Ireland recorded no further deaths.
The people who died in England were aged between 18 and 101. All had known underlying health conditions except two, aged 53 and 82.
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