NHS reports seven coronavirus deaths in the Anglia region over the weekend
A further seven Covid-19 patients have died in hospitals in the Anglia region in the past few days after no deaths were the reported by the NHS last Saturday and Sunday.
This weekend the NHS reported three deaths on Saturday and four on Sunday although the patients all died at the end of last week.
The latest deaths occurred at Basildon Hospital in Essex, Bedford Hospital and the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.
On Saturday, the NHS reported patients dying at Northampton General and at Kettering General.
Basildon and Northampton are the two hospitals in the Anglia which have seen the highest numbers of deaths with 307 patients dying with coronavirus in each unit.
The total number of patients dying in the hospitals in the Anglia region is now 4,144 and the total number of deaths in all settings, including care home, hospices and in the community as well as in hospitals is 5,985.
The total figure includes people who have died without a positive test for Covid-19 but where the condition was declared on death certificates.
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The UK coronavirus death toll has risen to 45,752 after a further 14 people died after testing positive for Covid-19.
Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have now been more than 55,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
In the Anglia region, the NHS has reported the deaths of 13 coronavirus patients in the week to Sunday. In the previous week, it was reported that 31 patients had died in the Anglia region.
In the week to Friday 24th July, a further 378 people tested positive for Covid-19 across the Anglia region taking the total number of confirmed cases to 28,942.
That is down on the 508 confirmed cases that were reported in the previous seven days although figures for last week may not yet be completed with delays in reporting test results over the weekend.
Four areas of the Anglia region remain among the 20 places in England with the highest infection rates.
Northampton - up from 19.5 cases per 100,000 to 24.9 cases
Luton - down from 37.4 cases per 100,000 to 23.4 cases
Peterborough - down from 30.8 cases per 100,000 to 19.9 cases
Corby - up from 14.1 cases per 100,000 to 19.8 cases
The figures are based on tests carried out in the seven days to 21 July as recorded by Public Health England on the government's coronavirus data dashboard on Friday 24 July. The rate is expressed as the number of new cases per 100,000 in the population.
The analysis by the Press Association shows a week-on-week rise in new positive tests for coronavirus in many parts of the Anglia region.
Here is the full list of local authorities in the Anglia region, showing the rate of new cases per 100,000 population in the seven days to 21 July, followed by the equivalent figure for the previous seven days to 14 July in brackets
Northampton 24.9 (19.5) - rising
Luton 23.4 (37.4) - falling
Peterborough 19.9 (30.8) - falling
Corby 19.8 (14.1) - rising
Bedford 14.0 (9.9) - rising
Kettering 12.8 (24.7) - falling
Rutland 12.6 (5.0) - rising
Tendring 11.0 (2.7) - rising
East Northamptonshire 10.6 (8.5) - rising
South Cambridgeshire 9.5 (3.8) - rising
Harborough 7.6 (7.6) - static
Wellingborough 7.5 (7.5) - static
Braintree 7.3 (35.0) - falling
Uttlesford 6.7 (2.2) - rising
Daventry 5.9 (2.4) - rising
Central Bedfordshire 5.6 (6.0) - falling
Thurrock 5.2 (5.8) - falling
Colchester 5.2 (2.1) - rising
Basildon 4.8 (8.1) - falling
St Albans 4.7 (6.8) - falling
Maldon 4.7 (3.1) - rising
Chelmsford 4.5 (2.3) - rising
Huntingdonshire 4.5 (3.4) - rising
Castle Point 4.4 (5.6) - falling
Brentwood 3.9 (5.2) - falling
Norwich 3.5 (3.5) - static
West Suffolk 3.4 (1.7) - rising
Southend-on-Sea 3.3 (9.9) - falling
South Northamptonshire 3.2 (6.5) - falling
Dacorum 3.2 (6.5) - falling
Cambridge 3.2 (2.4) - rising
North Hertfordshire 3.0 (1.5) - rising
Ipswich 2.9 (2.9) - static
Broadland 2.3 (0.8) - rising
Harlow 2.3 (1.2) - rising
Rochford 2.3 (3.4) - falling
Broxbourne 2.1 (7.2) - falling
East Hertfordshire 2.0 (0.7) - rising
Fenland 2.0 (8.9) - falling
North Norfolk 1.9 (1.0) - rising
Welwyn Hatfield 1.6 (4.1) - falling
Epping Forest 1.5 (3.8) - falling
Milton Keynes 1.5 (2.6) - falling
Breckland 1.4 (0.7) - rising
King's Lynn and West Norfolk 1.3 (0.7) - rising
East Suffolk 1.2 (1.2) - static
Stevenage 1.1 (0.0) - rising
Babergh 1.1 (2.2) - falling
Mid Suffolk 0.0 (0.0) - static
Great Yarmouth 0.0 (1.0) - falling
South Norfolk 0.0 (2.2) - falling
East Cambridgeshire 0.0 (2.2) - falling
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