NHS reports seven coronavirus deaths in the Anglia region over the weekend

More than 4,100 patients have died with coronavirus in hospitals in the Anglia region since the start of the pandemic. Credit: PA Images

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.

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.

The map shows the number of people with coronavirus who have died in each county in the Anglia region. Credit: Data from Office of National Statistics, the NHS and the Care Quality Commission

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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