Figures released by NHS England on Wednesday, January 20 show 1,027 deaths were recorded in the country's hospitals in the 24 hours to 4pm on Tuesday, January 19.

The deaths took place between December 14 2020 to January 19 2021, with the time taken for positive results to be received among the potential factors in a delay between a death happening and being recorded.

Across the UK, official figures showed that January 12 saw the highest number of deaths recorded on a single day – with 1,110 Covid-19 fatalities, eclipsing the previous peak of 1,073 on April 8, 2020.

There has been 67 new Covid deaths recorded in Yorkshire hospitals, the latest figures have announced.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the figures were “appalling” and warned “there will be more to come because what we’re seeing is the result of the wave of the new variant that we saw just before Christmas on December 18, or thereabouts”.

The grim statistics appeared as chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance gave a stark warning about the strain the pandemic was putting on hospitals.

“This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with,” he said.

But there was “light at the end of the tunnel” in the form of the vaccination programme, which has so far seen 4,609,740 people receive a first jab.

The data represents the deaths of hospital patients who had tested positive for Covid-19 in the previous 28 days and whose deaths were recorded in the latest reporting period.

Since April 28 2020, NHS England and NHS Improvement also started to report the number of patient deaths where there has been no Covid-19 positive test result but it is documented as a direct or underlying cause of death in the death certification process.

Deaths were recorded at the following hospital trusts in Yorkshire and the Humber:

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust 4

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 4

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 6

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust 6

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 4

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 9

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 3

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust 6

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust 4

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 7

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 7

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 7

67 new Covid deaths in Yorkshire hospitals as UK records its deadliest day of the pandemic