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The death toll in UK coronavirus hospitals has risen by 346 to 51,535 in another sign that the peak of the second wave could be stabilizing.
England recorded 275 deaths, Scotland 30, Wales 29 and Northern Ireland 12.
By comparison, the number of deaths announced on recent Fridays was 354 on December 4, 408 on November 27, 401 on November 20, 342 on November 13, and 270 on November 6.
The lowest figure announced on a Friday was five on August 21, while the highest was 953 on April 10, as the UK was going through the initial peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
It comes as Sage says the number of new infections in the UK is falling by zero to 2% every day, but is not confident that R is less than 1 in all regions of England, particularly London and parts of the southeast.
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NHS England announced another 275 deaths, bringing the total number of hospital deaths in England to 43,812. All but 15 of the latest victims were 60 and older.
Scotland has recorded 30 new deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
With this measure, the death toll (of people who tested positive for the virus for the first time in the previous 28 days) rises to 4,069.
The death toll in Wales rose by 29 to 2,818.
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Northern Ireland reported another 12 deaths to bring its total to 1,111.
Meanwhile, the replication number, or R-value, of coronavirus transmission in the UK is now between 0.9 and 1, the Government Office for Science and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said.
Last week, the R number was between 0.8 and 1.
R represents the average number of people each person infects with Covid-19.
When the number is greater than 1, a sprout can grow exponentially.
An R number between 0.9 and 1 means that, on average, every 10 infected people will infect between 9 and 10 more people.
Meanwhile, the value of R in England is between 0.8 and 1, but Sage said he is not sure that R is below 1 in all English regions, particularly in London and parts of the South East.
The crucial number could hit 1.1 in London, the South East and the East, with new infections increasing by as much as 1-2% every day in those regions.
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Estimates of R and growth rate are provided by the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modeling Group (SPI-M), a subgroup of Sage.
The growth rate, which estimates how quickly the number of infections changes from day to day, is between minus 2% and zero for the UK as a whole.
It means that the number of new infections is reduced between zero and 2% every day.
Estimates of R and growth rates are shown as a range, and actual values are likely to be within this range, according to experts.
Sage also said that the figures released on Friday more accurately represent the average situation of the past weeks rather than the current situation.
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