Coronavirus latest: Dacorum records over 20 new cases today

There have been 28 new positive Covid-19 tests in Dacorum over the last 24 hours.

The total for the borough is now 1,716, according to the latest figures from Public Health England.

There have been 259 new cases today in Hertfordshire, the total is now 15,203.

On Monday, Public Health England changed the way it records the location of people who have been tested for Covid-19 - counts of cases and deaths at sub-national level have been updated to reflect this.

The address given at the point of testing will now be used to determine a person's area of residence, rather than that on their electronic NHS record, with the change retrospectively applied to tests carried out from September 1.

There has been no new recorded deaths in Dacorum, the total is 107. There have been three new deaths in Hertfordshire, the total is now 939, according to Public Health England.

Nationally, the number of coronavirus cases has risen by 22,915 and now stands at 1,453,256.

The number of deaths has risen by 501 to 53,775.

The death toll has been 'recalculated' by officials. The new count is based on a new definition of who has died from Covid-19.

Previously, people in England who died at any stage following a positive test, regardless of the cause of their death, were counted in the figures.

However, there is now a cut off point of 28 days from the first laboratory-confirmed positive COVID test.

The figures for the number of patients recovered from Covid-19 have not been released by Public Health England.

The new figures were recorded between 5pm on Tuesday, November 17, and Wednesday, November 18.

The figures come from the Government website which is available for the public to view here.