NHS reports a further five coronavirus deaths in hospitals in the Anglia region

Collage image of coronavirus testing in the Anglia region
More than 4,000 patients have died with coronavirus in hospitals in the Anglia region since the start of the pandemic. Credit: PA Wire

A further five patients have died with Covid-19 in hospitals in Luton, Northampton and Southend.

It follows five deaths reported in the area on Wednesday and three on Tuesday.

The total number of patients dying in the hospitals in the Anglia region has now reached 4,084 and the total number of deaths in all settings, including care home, hospices and in the community as well as in hospitals is 5,873.

The total figure includes people who have died without a positive test for Covid-19 but where the condition was mentioned on death certificates.

A further 85 people have died in the UK after contracting coronavirus, taking the death toll to 44,602.

The figures, as of 5pm on Wednesday and from the Department of Health and Social Care, do not include all deaths involving Covid-19 across the UK, which are thought to have passed 55,000 according to Office for National Statistics data.

The map shows the number of people who have died with Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic. Credit: Data from Office of National Statistics, the NHS and the Care Quality Commission

In the past week, 459 new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed with positive tests in the Anglia region.

In some parts of the region, new infections are rising twice as fast as the national average of 1.4%.

There have been 94 new cases in Northamptonshire - an increase of 3%.

There have been 91 new cases in a week in Bedfordshire, which includes the unitary areas of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton. The represents an increase of 2.4% since 2nd July.

A further 85 positive tests were recorded in Cambridgeshire of which 58 were in Peterborough, which represents as rise of 4.7% in the city.

Essex saw 76 additional cases during the past seven days, there were 66 more in Hertfordshire, 23 in Suffolk and 12 in Norfolk and 8 in Milton Keynes.

Hospitals or NHS Trusts in the Anglia region with more than 100 coronavirus deaths

Figures from NHS England to 5pm on Wednesday 8 July 2020 released on Thursday

  • 365 - West Hertfordshire NHS Trust including Watford General (unchanged since yesterday)

  • 351 - East Suffolk & North Essex (unchanged) which includes hospitals in Aldeburgh, Colchester, Felixstowe and Ipswich

  • 305 - Basildon Hospital (unchanged)

  • 300 - Northampton General Hospital (up 1)

  • 280 - Luton & Dunstable Hospital (up 2)

  • 242 - Southend Hospital (up 1)

  • 233 - NW Anglia, Peterborough & Hinchingbrooke (unchanged)

  • 218 - Bedford Hospital (unchanged)

  • 214 - Kettering General Hospital (unchanged)

  • 201 - Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow (unchanged)

  • 193 - Mid Essex, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford (unchanged)

  • 163 - East & North Herts including the Lister Hospital, Stevenage (unchanged)

  • 147 - Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn (unchanged)

  • 124 - Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge (unchanged)

  • 123 - Norfolk & Norwich Hospital (unchanged)

  • 117 - James Paget Hospital, Gorleston (unchanged)

  • 104 - Milton Keynes Hospital (unchanged)

  • 183 - Deaths in hospitals in the East of England attributed to Covid-19 on the death certificate but without a positive test (an increase of 1 since yesterday)

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