DOZENS of new coronavirus cases have been reported in Herefordshire on Wednesday, latest figures show.

The official statistics from Public Health England show that 5,768 people had been confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19 by 9am on Wednesday (January 27) in Herefordshire, up by 42 from 5,726 the same time on Tuesday.

Some 373 people had tested positive for coronavirus over the last seven days, but this number was 228 lower when compared to the week before.

The graph below shows the number of cases in Herefordshire by date of test, and not the day when the cases were published by PHE.

The Government website says the last five days' data is incomplete, thought to be due to a delay in results being processed.

Across the UK, the number of recorded cases increased by 25,308 over the period, to 3,715,054.

Cumulative case counts include patients who are currently unwell, have recovered and those that have died.

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The Government said a further 1,725 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Wednesday, bringing the UK total to 101,887.

Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies for deaths where Covid-19 has been mentioned on the death certificate, together with additional data on deaths that have occurred in recent days, show there have now been 119,000 deaths involving Covid-19 in the UK.

The Government also said that, as of 9am on Wednesday, there had been a further 25,308 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.

It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 3,715,054.

NHS England data for the Wye Valley Trust published on Wednesday showed 140 had now died at Herefordshire's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus, four more than in figures for the previous day.

But it came as government data up to January 26 shows of the 7,638,543 jabs given in the UK so far, 7,164,387 were first doses – a rise of 311,060 on the previous day’s figures.

Some 474,156 were second doses, an increase of 1,710 on figures released the previous day.

The seven-day rolling average of first doses given in the UK is now 364,950.

Based on the latest figures, an average of 412,401 first doses of vaccine would be needed each day in order to meet the Government’s target of 15 million first doses by February 15.