The number of people who have died with coronavirus in UK hospitals, care homes and the wider community has risen by 315, bringing the total number of fatalities to 28,446.
The Department of Health figures were offered by cabinet minister Michael Gove during Sunday's news briefing.
In England, the number of people who have died with the virus in hospitals has risen by 327 to 21,180. These figures are calculated over a different time period.
In Northern Ireland, five more people have died with COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths to 381.
A further 14 people have died in Wales, taking the total number of deaths there to 983, Public Health Wales said.
Scotland deaths have risen by 12 to 1,571, with a total of 60,295 people being tested for the virus.
Mr Gove revealed that 76,496 coronavirus tests were carried out in the 24 hours to 9am this morning, bringing the total to 1,206,405.
He said more than 200,000 key workers and their families had been tested for the virus and the criteria for testing had been extended beyond key workers to anyone over 65 displaying symptoms and anyone who has to travel to work.
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Mr Gove confirmed that Britain will trial a new coronavirus tracking programme next week on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England in a bid to minimise the risk of a second wave of the infection.
"This week we will be piloting new test, track and trace procedures on the Isle of Wight with a view to having that in place more widely later this month," he told the news conference.
Yesterday, a further 621 people across the UK were confirmed to have died with coronavirus, bringing the nationwide total to 28,131.
Sunday's official figures come after transport secretary Grant Shapps admitted that fewer Britons would have died from coronavirus if more tests had been available earlier.
Speaking on Andrew Marr this morning, he said "many things" could have been different if the UK's testing capacity was above 100,000 before COVID-19 spread in the country.
He added: "The fact of the matter is this is not a country that had - although we're very big in pharmaceuticals as a country - we're not a country that had very large test capacity."
Mr Shapps said the NHSX contact tracing app, which will be rolled out later this month, requires 50%-60% of people to use for it to be successful.
Meanwhile, prime minister Boris Johnson has pledged to set out a "comprehensive plan" on how to ease the lockdown on Thursday, when the government is due to review the measures.
Mr Shapps told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday: "I don't think we should expect us to go from this situation that we have at the moment of social distancing back to where we were in February - that's clearly not going to happen and I don't think anyone imagines that for one moment."
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2020-05-03 15:40:35Z
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