England, Scotland and Wales have reported fewer new hospital deaths linked to coronavirus than figures released yesterday – but there have still been 413 reported deaths across the UK.

The vast majority of deaths have been in England where 336 deaths have been confirmed today, compared with 711 reported yesterday. The overall figure is now 18,420.

• Scotland has reported 18 more coronavirus deaths in hospitals, taking its total to 1,249. Scotland reported 47 on Saturday.
• Wales has reported 14 more deaths in hospitals, taking its total to 788. Wales reported 23 on Saturday.

The Department of Health says the total number of deaths in hospitals across the UK is 20,732.

Some 15,953 people are in hospital having tested positive for COVID-19. This is down from 16,411 since yesterday.

Experts have cautioned against reading too much into the daily figure and advise people to look more at the weekly trend in the direction of numbers.

Also, sometimes there can be fewer reported during the weekend as some of the people who collate the numbers may not be working.

Northern Ireland officials have not announced their latest figures.

On Saturday, the number of UK fatalities passed 20,000 in a bleak milestone described as “tragic and terrible” by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who said the whole country was grieving.

Health officials had previously hoped that in the best case scenario in the COVID-19 pandemic they could limit this figure to 20,000 or below.

The latest fatality figures do not cover coronavirus-related deaths in the wider community, including in care homes, which means the true number will be higher by several thousand at least.

Boris Johnson, who spent a week in hospital and nearly lost his life to the disease, is expected to return to work tomorrow. He is under pressure from the Labour leader and Conservative donors to lift coronavirus lockdown measures.

The prime minister, who was treated in intensive care, will be back in Downing Street just over a fortnight after leaving hospital.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has stepped up pressure on the government to set out an “exit strategy” for lifting lockdown measures that were put in place on 23 March to slow the spread of coronavirus.

But Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has been deputising for the PM, has told Sky News that it would not be responsible to give details of any exit strategy.

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