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The death toll from coronavirus in the UK has risen by 33, the lowest increase on a Sunday since the beginning of October, and the number of new cases increased by 15% in a week.
Britain set a new daily record for vaccinations for the third day in a row, with 873,784 first and second hits in the last 24-hour period for a total of 29,859,742.
Now there have been 126,155 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.
By comparison, the daily tolls announced on recent Sundays were 52 on March 14, 82 on March 7, 144 on February 28, and 215 on February 21.
The UK recorded another 5,312 cases, up from a total of 4,618 a week ago.
The latest figures came as a government adviser warned that vaccine supply problems could cause the UK vaccination program to be “slightly delayed”.
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However, Professor Jeremy Brown said that because the vaccination schedule is “ahead of schedule,” it will probably just go back to the original schedule.
Professor Brown, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday program: “It seems that we have been doing a vaccine program that produces almost five million per week, which would be a fantastic result if we could keep that.
“But it’s always been the vaccine supply that could slow things down and, yes, I suspect our vaccine program will be a bit behind schedule compared to what we thought it might have been a few weeks ago.
“But then we got ahead of the schedule, so we’ll probably go back to the original schedule and finish off all the adults who are offered a vaccine in mid to late summer.”
Previously, the death toll in hospitals from coronavirus in the UK increased by 42.
England reported 35 deaths, Wales had six and Northern Ireland had one.
Another 35 people who tested positive for coronavirus died at a hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths reported in hospitals to 85,765, NHS England said on Sunday.
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The patients were between 37 and 98 years old and all but two, ages 37 and 88, had known underlying health conditions.
The deaths occurred between May 18 and March 20.
Another 20 deaths with no positive Covid-19 test result were reported.
Public Health Wales reported six more deaths, bringing the country’s total since the start of the pandemic to 5,488.
There have been another 196 coronavirus cases in Wales, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 207,842.
The death toll in Northern Ireland rose by one to 2,104, the country’s Health Department said.
125 more cases were detected for a total pandemic of 115,932.
Scotland has reported no new coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the most recent data.
532 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported, with a daily test positivity rate of 2.9 percent, up from 2.7 percent on Saturday.
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