The UK has recorded 335 coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period, according to government data.

It compared to 398 deaths recorded on Wednesday and brings the total number of deaths to 151,342.

However, separate figures published by the Office for National Statistics show there have been 174,233 deaths registered in the UK where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.

The data also shows 109,133 more COVID cases were reported in the latest 24-hour period.

Read live updates of COVID in the UK and around the world

The number of new cases was down from 129,587 on Wednesday and nearly 24% lower over the last seven days compared to the week before.

Deaths in the last seven days were up 67% compared to a week earlier.

COVID-19: Jacob Rees-Mogg says pandemic public inquiry should consider if rules were ‘too hard on people’

December worst month on record for A&E waiting times in England

COVID-19: Self-isolation period in England cut from seven days to five, Sajid Javid announces

Vaccine rollout

A total of 52,031,355 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine were delivered in the UK by 12 January, the latest figures show.

This is a rise of 19,520 on the previous day.

Some 47,804,588 second doses have been delivered, an increase of 30,340.

A combined total of 36,079,875 booster and third doses have been given, a day-on-day rise of 126,632.

Related posts:

Olympic star creates cycling glasses that allow riders to see behind them Five officers investigated for alleged manslaughter after death of man following arrest UK reports 58 COVID deaths and 4,715 cases in last 24 hours Number of workers on furlough falls by nearly 1.2 million in a month – as scheme starts to wind down Boy, five, found dead in river in South Wales Tests at England’s major railway stations and on trains reveal no traces of COVID-19 Former MI6 boss warns UK’s terror threat level ‘greater today’ following Afghanistan exit Third COVID jab to be offered to people with severely weakened immune systems Johanna Konta announces her retirement from tennis Paramedic dies after ambulance collides with cement truck in Kent Newly qualified paramedic killed in crash with cement lorry named as Alice Clark Another annus horribilus for Boris Johnson has only just begun | Beth Rigby