NEW: The UK records another 1322 Covid deaths.

That takes the total to 109,335.

Roughly one in 608 of the population has died of this disease.

Nearly 50,000 of those deaths (49,077) have been recorded since the 1st December alone.

33,117 of the deaths have been recorded since January 1st.

That's roughly 30% of all Covid deaths in the UK since the start of the year.

Have to be a bit careful because date of death is different to when the data comes in. But still the point is this "wave" has been catastrophically lethal. The immediate pre and post Christmas period has made up a huge % of our total death toll.

In the first peak on the 10th April 7 day average his 974- a high at the time.

Even though it's down 13% we're still at 1,149. 18% higher than our first peak 7 day average high.

Though excess deaths figs in April were very very high so does suggest real covid deaths in the first peak were higher

Either way, even though we've had nearly a year of these figures and perhaps we've become accustomed to them- worth repeating, they remain very high indeed.

To put it another way, if we held a minute's silence for every person who is recorded as a Covid death, it would last for nearly 76 days.

Chris Whitty says UK Covid deaths likely to remain high "for quite some time."

UK still has the 3rd worst recorded death rate in the world. Worst of any major industrial country.