The UK hospital death from Coronavirus stands at 12,868 an increase of 761 in the last twenty four hours.
313,769 people have been tested of which 98,476 tested positive.
There were 15,994 across the UK yesterday.
The latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University, which has tracked the spread of the virus during the pandemic, puts the confirmed global total of cases at 2,000,984.
In the Daily Press Conference, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock set out his social care plans adding that he wanted to ensure that carers get the same sort of priority treatment that NHS staff do in some settings.
Firstly all care home residents coming back from hospital will be tested before being re-admitted to the care home.
He also announced that a new online delivery system is being rolled out to supply care homes with Personal Protective Equipment.
The Health Secretary said that he wants to ensure that “closest loved ones” will be able to be with people dying of coronavirus, wherever possible.
At the same conference Prof Chris Whitty says he thinks the death toll is probably reaching its peak.However he expects the death figures to go up tomorrow. He says, after a weekend, the death numbers tend to go down for two days before going up again.
However, he added,
we are not at the point where we can say confidently that we are past the peak.At this point, they do not know what the transmission rate is. It is between 0.5 and 1, and we need to know more before they can determine when it is safe to relax the social distancing measures.
