WEEKEND UPDATE: Dacorum records huge jump in cases

There have been 74 new positive Covid-19 tests recorded in Dacorum over the weekend.

The total for the borough is now 1,513, according to the latest figures from Public Health England.

There have been 450 new cases in Hertfordshire, the total is now 12,766.

There were no recorded deaths in Dacorum, the total is 105. The number has revised down by one to 906 deaths in Hertfordshire since the start of the pandemic, according to Public Health England.

Nationally, the number of coronavirus cases has risen by 20,572 and now stands at 1,192,013.

The number of deaths has risen by 156 to 49,044.

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