Coronavirus latest: Dacorum records 41 new confirmed cases in 24 hours

There have been 41 new positive Covid-19 tests in Dacorum in the last 24 hours, the total for the borough is now 962, according to the latest figures from Public Health England.

There were 227 new cases in Hertfordshire, the total is now 7,812.

There have been no new deaths of a patient testing positive for Covid-19 in Dacorum or Hertfordshire today. The total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic of people who had a positive test result for COVID-19 and died within 28 days of the first positive test in Dacorum is still 97, in Hertfordshire it is still 873 deaths.

There have been 654,644 lab-confirmed cases in the UK, rising by 19,724.

The number of Covid-19 associated UK deaths has been recorded as 43,155, rising by 137 - according to Public Health England.

Nationally, 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 Monday, October 12, and Tuesday, October 13.

The figures come from the Government website which is available for the public to view here.On Monday, in an effort to address the rising infection rates, the Prime Minister introduced the three-tier system for local lockdowns, which means different parts of England have been placed into different categories.

Areas in England will now be labelled as medium, high or very high risk, depending on their infection rates, which will inform the “appropriate interventions” needed in each area.

Dacorum and Hertfordshire have both been ranked in the "medium" tier.

Read: This is where Dacorum has ranked in the government's new Covid-19 three-tier systemRead: Public Health Chief urges Dacorum residents to follow government guidelines to avoid tougher measuresThe JPI Data team have created a series of interactive maps - www.hemeltoday.co.uk/interactive/coronavirus-uk-map-covid-19 - that will track the impact of Covid-19 on each local area and region of the UK.