REVEALED: Hotspots in Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring where Covid-19 has claimed most lives

Highfield in Hemel Hempstead has been hit harder by Covid-19 than any other neighbourhood in Dacorum, it has been revealed.

Data released by the Office for National Statistics pinpoints fatalities linked to the virus in each postcode area between March 1 and April 17.

A sobering interactive map has been created by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). You can check the map for yourself HERE.

Figures show there have been eight confirmed Covid-19 related deaths in the Highfield area of the town.

The statistics run up to two weeks ago but take in the peak of the outbreak which is thought to have occurred in the Midlands in early April.

This is the first time the figures have been broken down outside of hospital level date. They include deaths in care homes and in the community.

Here are the number of coronavirus related deaths in your area broken down by local neighbourhood:

- Maylands and Adeyfield had seven confirmed deaths

- Hemel Hempstead Town had three confirmed deaths

- Tring East, Wiggington and Aldbury had one confirmed death

- Boxmoor and Apsley had four confirmed deaths

- Northchurch and Potten End had three confirmed deaths

- Nash Mills and Bennetts End had two confirmed deaths

- Berkhamsted South had one death

- Berkhamsted West had two confirmed deaths

- Bovingdon and Chipperfield had two confirmed deaths

- Chaulden had one confirmed death

- Gadebridge and old town had two confirmed deaths

- Grovehill had one confirmed death

- Hemel Hempstead Town had three confirmed deaths

- Kings Langley had one confirmed death

- Leverstock Green had four confirmed deaths

- Northchurch and Potten End had three confirmed deaths

- Tring North had two confirmed deaths

- Markyate, flamstead and Gaddesden had one confirmed death

There were no confirmed deaths in Warners End, Berkhamsted town and Tring West and Long Marston.

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