A further 10,406 cases of coronavirus in the UK have been confirmed by the Department of Health as at 9am this morning.
Deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test have risen by 445.
The average number of deaths has fallen by 28.2 per cent week-on-week.
Meanwhile a further 371,906 people were vaccinated yesterday.It takes the total number of people vaccinated to 17,852,327 17,247,442 of which were first doses –