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The number of people in the UK testing positive for coronavirus rose by 3,330, official figures show.
Five other people, all of them in England, have died after testing positive for COVID-19 in the last 28 days.
Coronavirus cases in Scotland They have reached a four-month high for the second day in a row, with 244 positive swabs in the past 24 hours, compared to 221 on Saturday. The last time the numbers were this high was on May 6.
In Welsh, infections have risen by 162. A total of 1,597 people have died from the virus in Wales, but no new deaths were recorded on Sunday.
In North Ireland, there were another 87 positive cases in the last 24 hours, with the death toll unchanged at 568.
Of the 3,330 positive test results on Sunday, 2,837 were in England, and the overall total was down 197 in figure from yesterday of 3,497.
Government data shows that 41,628 people have died from the coronavirus in the UK, but separate figures released by UK statistical agencies state that 57,405 deaths have now been recorded across the country with the virus on the certificate of death.
Starting Monday, it will be illegal to gather in groups of more than six people both indoors and outdoors.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the new restrictions earlier this week amid claims that the UK’s R rate, or the virus’s reproduction rate, is as high as 1.7.
