COVID-19: UK records another 12,330 coronavirus cases and 205 deaths
It brings the total number of UK cases to 1,629,657.
Monday 30 November 2020 20:01, UK
A further 12,330 people have tested positive for coronavirus and 205 people have died in the UK in the last 24 hours, government figures show.
The number of cases is a slight rise from the 12,155 new cases seen on Sunday - with the number of fatalities falling slightly from 215.
It brings the total number of coronavirus cases in the UK to 1,629,657, and the total number of deaths involving COVID-19 to 58,448.
In Wales there were another 802 cases and three deaths. It brings the total number of confirmed cases to 80,342 and the total deaths since the start of the pandemic to 2,540, according to Public Health Wales.
A further 183 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed hospital deaths to 40,588, NHS England said on Monday.
Patients were aged between 52 and 95. All except three, aged between 84 and 93, had known underlying health conditions.
The deaths were between 5 November and 29 November, with the majority on or after 23 November.
New data on released on Friday showed the R number (the reproduction rate of the virus) has fallen to between 0.9 and 1 across the UK, suggesting the outbreak is slowing.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson said "if we're lucky" a coronavirus vaccine could be available "in a few weeks".
On Monday, the prime minister visited pharmaceutical company Wockhardt's facility in Wrexham, where he said it is hoped the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine will be produced.
He told reporters: "This could - could, if we're lucky, if everything goes right - be available just in a few weeks.
"This could - and I stress could - really be the salvation for humanity, these vaccines, not just this one but obviously all the vaccines that are currently being developed."