Post Desk : The UK has recorded 12,872 more coronavirus cases and 65 deaths in the latest daily government update.

It marks a slight fall from Saturday, when 15,166 cases and 81 deaths were recorded.

The UK’s coronavirus death toll now stands at 42,825.

Separately, NHS England’s latest figures show 32 people died in hospital with COVID-19 over the space of 24 hours.

It brings the total number of hospital deaths to 30,471 in England.

Those who died were aged between 54 and 100 years old. Just one of them did not have an underlying health condition.

The deaths were between 28 March and 10 October – but most were on or after 8 October, Public Health England said.

More than 600,000 cases of the virus have now been recorded in the UK, the figures show.