The UK has suffered its deadliest day in the coronavirus pandemic with a further 1820 deaths in a 24-hour period.
It surpasses the previous record number announced yesterday of 1610, bringing Britain’s total death toll from the virus to 93,290.
The government also confirmed a further 38,905 new Covid-19 cases were recorded yesterday, compared to 33,355 a day earlier.
New figures from the vaccine programme show 4,609,740 people have received the first dose of the vaccine.
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