[Jimbuna]

A further 104 people have died with coronavirus in the UK, the government's daily figures show.

This takes the number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test to 122,953.

There were also 5,455 new infections recorded in the last 24 hours.

On Monday of last week, there were 178 deaths and 10,641 positive cases reported.

The UK has given the first dose of coronavirus vaccine to 20,275,451 people, data from the government shows.

And 815,816 people have received their second dose.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock hails data which shows a single shot of the main UK Covid vaccines cuts hospitalisations by 80%

Number of new cases is coming down, but rate of decline has slowed, he says, but number of hospitalisations falling faster.

The number of Covid patients aged over 80 admitted to intensive care in the UK has dropped to single figures in the last couple of weeks.

English health officials are tying to trace a person who tested positive for the Brazilian variant of Covid-19, but did not get their result.

Dr Hopkins says Public Health England needs to trace a passenger who was on Swiss flight LX318 on 12 February.

Six cases of the P1 coronavirus variant first detected in Brazil have been found in England and Scotland.

Passengers complain of queues of up to seven hours long at Heathrow Airport's border control.

African countries start mass Covid inoculation drives using vaccines supplied through a scheme set up to share doses fairly with poorer nations.