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The death toll from coronavirus in the UK rose by 598 and the number of daily confirmed cases has been recorded at 20,051.
The current grim number of people who have died after testing positive for Covid-19 is the highest number since May.
The total death toll in the UK is now 52,745 and the total number of positive cases is 1,410,732.
The news comes as the number of deaths in England and Wales with Covid-19 on the death certificate soared by 40% in just one week, new figures show.
A total of 1,937 deaths recorded in the week ending Nov. 6 mentioned the coronavirus, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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This is the highest number of virus-related deaths since the week ending May 22.
It has also risen from 1,379 deaths in the week to October 30, an increase of 40%.
Northwest England remains the Covid capital of the country with excess deaths increasing at an alarming rate.
Several vaccines are expected to be deployed in the UK in a matter of weeks.
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They include a hit from Pfizer, which recently turned out to be 90% effective.
Sir John Bell, a professor of medicine at the University of Oxford and a member of the government’s vaccine task force, has revealed that any side effects from the vaccine “should be apparent within two to three months.”
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today program, he said: “You always worry about the side effects of vaccines.
“If you look back at the history of vaccines, most of the side effects that have occurred with vaccines are quite evident within the first two to three months.
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“I suspect we will fix any side effect issues fairly quickly.
“It seems to me that the manufacturers, as far as they could, have been very careful when thinking about safety during their testing.
“And everyone is taking the time to submit their registration requests because they are spending more time on security, to make sure they have everything covered.
“You can never be complacent about security, but I think a lot of effort is being made.”
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The government will decide next week how to end the current lockdown, as scientists warned that a stricter tier system is needed until vaccines can roll back the pandemic.
Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said Tuesday that ministers want to see a “significant relaxation” of coronavirus controls when the lockdown in England is lifted on December 2, but suggested that stricter controls might be necessary at the Level 3 top.
Susan Hopkins, Medical Director of Public Health England (PHE) and Senior Medical Advisor for NHS Test and Trace, said ministers would have to consider “strengthening” the tier system.
Level 1 restrictions covering large parts of England had “very little effect,” he said, adding that even Level 2 only worked in some areas.
Papers released last week by the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modeling Group (SPI-M), which reports to the Scientific Advisory Committee for Emergencies (Sage), said there was a “clear effect” on infection rates from strict interventions of Level 3, but “much less than levels 1 and 2.”
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