One more death recorded in North Tyneside

There was one more coronavirus death recorded in the latest 24-hour period in North Tyneside.

The dashboard shows 601 people had died in the area by April 22 (Friday) – up from 600 on Thursday.

They were among 8,397 deaths recorded across the North East.

The figures include anyone who died within 28 days of a positive test result for Covid-19, and whose usual residence was in North Tyneside.

Daily death counts are revised each day, with each case backdated to the actual date of death.

A total of 150,771 deaths were recorded throughout England by April 22 (Friday) – up from 150,468 on Thursday.