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The number of people who have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus has risen to 43,550 – an increase of 36 over 24 hours.
Since the end of April, the government’s daily announcement has included people in care homes and the community, rather than just in hospital, who have died.
But only those who had tested positive for Covid-19 are included, meaning anyone who died with a suspected case won’t be recorded.
The figures cover the period up to 5pm on Saturday.
It comes after the number of people who have died in hospitals across the UK, as well as care homes in Wales, after contracting the virus rose by XXXXXXXX in 24 hours.
That increase consisted of 18 in England, two in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. Scotland recorded zero new deaths for the third consecutive day.
NHS England said patients who died were aged between 43 and 95 years old. One patient, aged 48, had no known underlying health conditions.
The daily death toll is far lower than previous 24-hour periods, but it is important to note that the totals are often artificially lower on Sunday and Monday due to a lag in reporting over the weekend.
Meanwhile, the government has not published the number of people who have been tested for coronavirus for several weeks.
As of 9am on Sunday, there had been 9,195,132 tests completed, with 127,709 in the past 24 hours. The true number of tests is likely to be much lower as many patients are tested more than once for the virus.
A total of 311,151 people have tested positive over the course of the crisis in the UK.