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The United Kingdom reported a daily record of 1,564 coronavirus fatalities on Wednesday, the first time the death toll passed the 1,500-mark since March last year.
The previous highest increase was 1,325, which was reported on 8 January.
It takes the total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test to 84,767.
Another 47,525 cases have also been added to the government’s coronavirus data dashboard – the third day running that new infections have been below 50,000. That total is now 3,211,576.
While the majority of the latest fatalities reported took place during the past week, some date back to 8 May 2020, when the very first national lockdown was still in place.
Ahead of the update to the UK-wide figures, NHS England confirmed that another 1,012 people who tested positive for COVID-19 had died in hospital, bringing that total to 57,828.
Patients were aged between 39 and 102 and all except 46 (aged 39 to 98) had known underlying health conditions.
Meanwhile, Spain’s Galicia, La Rioja and Cantabria regions became the latest areas to impose more stringent COVID-19 restrictions amid a rapid increase in infections.
Worldwide, more than 91 million coronavirus cases have been reported with more than 1.9 million deaths.