The UK’s official coronavirus death toll across all settings has risen to 36,793.

This includes an increase of 118 fatalities including in care homes since yesterday.

Speaking at today’s press conference, Boris Johnson said: ‘Each of those fatalities represents a family in mourning, the grief of friends and relatives.

‘As we mourn them, we resolve again to beat this virus and get our country back on its feet. And we can and we will.’

He said that 3,458,905 tests for coronavirus have now been carried out in the UK, including 110,401 tests carried out yesterday.

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In total, 259,559 people have tested positive, an increase of 2,409 cases since yesterday.

Across the country, 8,951 people are in hospital with Covid-19, down 11% from 10,085 this time last week.

It comes as the Government was engulfed in a row over Boris Johnson’s top adviser Dominic Cummings allegedly breaking the lockdown to visit his parents’ home. 

Mr Cummings has been seen entering Downing Street amid growing calls for him to resign.

Boris Johnson led this evening’s press conference amid controversy over the alleged lockdown breaches.

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