The UK has recorded the lowest number of daily coronavirus deaths since before nationwide lockdown measures were introduced.
After the figures were released, Health Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted: "Yesterday, across the UK, only 36 deaths were recorded with coronavirus - the lowest since 21 March.
"We are winning the battle against this horrible disease."
The official total of UK deaths across all settings now stands at 41,698.
According to the Department for Health and Social Care, more than 6.7 million coronavirus tests had been conducted in the UK as of 9am on Sunday - with 144,865 carried out on Saturday.
However, figures are still not being made available for how many individual people were tested.
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In total, 295,889 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the UK, although the actual number of people to have contracted the disease is likely to be much higher.
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been more than 63,000 excess deaths in the UK, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Of those, just under 50,200 have been linked to COVID-19.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced lockdown measures in the UK on 23 March, and some restrictions have since been eased.
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