10 more Derbyshire deaths UK daily toll reaches 1,162

TEN more Covid-19-related deaths have been reported at Derbyshire hospitals.

The figures from NHS England come as it was revealed that the UK had endured one of its highest daily death tolls since the pandemic began.

The Government announced yesterday afternoon that a total of 1,162 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Thursday.

That is the highest daily reported total since April 21, when 1,224 were recorded.

The latest fatality statistics for Derbyshire – revealed by NHS England in their own separate tables of hospital deaths – show that nine deaths have been reported at Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.

One other death was recorded at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

The county as a whole saw 670 new Covid cases today in the latest daily report on coronavirus cases from the Government’s online dashboard. More than a third of those – 239 – were in Derby, which saw the biggest rise here, while Bolsover was second with 90.

The breakdown for each local authority area is:

■ Amber Valley 5,635 (rise of 87)

■ Bolsover 3,678 (rise of 90)

■ Chesterfield 3,788 (rise of 53)

■ Derby 12,049 (rise of 239)

■ Derbyshire Dales 1,771 (rise of 24)

■ Erewash 4,149 (rise of 59)

■ High Peak 3,172 (rise of 38)

■ NE Derbyshire 3,997 (rise of 37)

■ S Derbyshire 4,584 (rise of 43) Locally, the number of Covidrelated hospital deaths since the start of the pandemic is as follows:

■ Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust 1,024 (increase of nine)

■ Chesterfield Royal Hospital 217 (increase of one)

■ Derbyshire Community Health Services 26 (no change)

■ Derbyshire Healthcare 2

(no change)

The Government’s latest UK-wide figures continue to be affected by a lag in the publication of recent data and will contain some deaths that took place over the Christmas and New Year period that have only just been reported.

The Press Association says that separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies for deaths where Covid-19 has been mentioned on the death certificate, together with additional data on deaths that have occurred in recent days, show there have now been 94,000 deaths involving Covid-19 in the UK.

The Government also said that, as of 9am on Thursday, there had been a further 52,618 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.

It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 2,889,419.