The UK's coronavirus R rate has fallen to between 0.8-1.0 ahead of next week's vaccine rollout. Last week, the R rate stood was betweeb 0.9 and 1.0.
It comes after the number of coronavirus deaths in the UK from all settings increased by a further 414 yesterday - taking the total past the grim milestone of 60,000.
A further 14,879 cases were also recorded. While Covid-19 is still killing several hundred people each day across the country, increasingly there appears to be hope that the pandemic can come to an end.
The first doses of the approved coronavirus vaccine arrived in the UK yesterday - with immunisation to begin from Tuesday, according to an NHS boss.
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