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The UK has reported an additional 15,166 coronavirus cases and 81 more deaths in the latest daily update.
It marks an increase of 1,302 cases in Friday daily figures – when 87 deaths were reported – and it means the UK has now recorded 42,760 coronavirus-related deaths.
Previously, NHS England reported that 60 people with COVID-19 had died in hospitals within 24 hours, bringing the total confirmed deaths reported in hospitals in England to 30,439.
These patients were between 41 and 93 years old. All but five of them had known underlying health problems. All five were between 72 and 86 years old.
The deaths occurred between March 30 and October 9, although the majority occurred on or after October 7.
Wales has reported another 627 coronavirus-related cases and 21 other deaths, bringing the total number of people who have died from the virus since the start of the pandemic to 1,667.
Public Health Wales said the large increase was the result of a delay in adding 17 deaths in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Board of Health area, which covers Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf, between the 3rd and the 7th. October.
It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is ready to outline a new three level system of measures to MPs on Monday with plans expected to include closing pubs, restaurants and other hospitality venues in England.
But the leaders of Greater Manchester, Tyneside, Sheffield and Liverpool have called more effective in supporting areas subject to the most stringent restrictions, warning ministers that they cannot blockade the North “cheaply.”
They said a Expansion of the Employment Support Program across the UK, announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Friday, doesn’t go far enough.
Under the scheme, workers at companies forced to close due to stricter closure measures will have two-thirds of their salaries paid by the government.
But Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said that accepting the Chancellor’s financial package would “deliver our residents to hardships in the run-up to Christmas and our businesses to possible failure or collapse.”
“We are not prepared to do that,” he said during a joint press conference with Jamie Driscoll, Mayor of North Tyne, Dan Jarvis, Mayor of the Sheffield City Region, Steve Rotherham, Mayor of Liverpool City Region and Sir Richard Leese. . , the leader of the Manchester City Council.
