50 further coronavirus cases and one more death recorded in South Tyneside

A Coronavirus testing centre in Dalston, east London. There were a further 6,042 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK as of 9am on Saturday, taking the overall number to 429,277. A further 34 deaths were recorded.

The number of coronavirus cases in South Tyneside increased by 50 in the last 24 hours, official figures show – and one more death was recorded.

A total of 19,217 people had been confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19 in South Tyneside when the UK coronavirus daily dashboard was updated on August 5 (Thursday), up from 19,167 on Wednesday.

The rate of infection in South Tyneside now stands at 12,715 cases per 100,000 people, far higher than the England average of 9,240.

The dashboard has now been updated to use the latest population estimates for mid-2020 from the Office for National Statistics.

Across the UK, the number of recorded cases increased by 29,825 over the period, to 5,982,581.

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

The dashboard shows 443 people had died in the area by August 5 (Thursday) – up from 442 on Wednesday.

It means there have been five deaths in the past week, which is an increase on two the previous week.

They were among 6,159 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 South Tyneside.

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

The figures also show that more than two-thirds of people in South Tyneside have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine.

The latest figures show 89,792 people had received both jabs by August 4 (Wednesday) – 70% of those aged 18 and over, based on the number of people on the National Immunisation Management Service database.

Across England, 73% of people aged 18 and above had received a second dose of the jab.

This figure has been revised following the removal of a small number of people vaccinated in Wales, which had been included in the daily vaccination total for England since July 27.

Unlike at local level, the national rate was calculated using mid-2020 population estimates from the Office for National Statistics.