More than 700 lives have been lost as a result of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

Covid-19 has not claimed the lives of 708 people in the UK in just 24 hours.

As of 9am this morning a total of 183,190 people have been tested of which 41,903 tested positive.

As of 5pm on 3 April, of those hospitalised in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus, 4,313 have sadly died.