The number of recorded coronavirus cases in Herefordshire increased by 53 in the last 24 hours, official figures show.

Public Health England figures show that 5,821 people had been confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19 by 9am on Thursday (January 28) in Herefordshire, up from 5,768 the same time on Wednesday.

Over the past seven days, the Government's coronavirus dashboard shows 353 new cases have been found, down 234 on 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.

There can be a few days while waiting for tests results to be returned from laboratories, so the last five days' data is not considered complete.

Across the UK, the number of recorded cases increased by 28,680 over the period, to 3,743,734.

Herefordshire's cases were among the 353,938 recorded across the West Midlands, a figure which rose by 3,451 over the period.

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

Figures from NHS England show 153 people had died in hospital at Wye Valley NHS Trust as of 5pm on Wednesday (January 27).

That was an increase of three compared to Tuesday, when there were 150.

The Government said a further 1,239 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Thursday, bringing the UK total to 103,126.

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 120,000 deaths involving Covid-19 in the UK.

The Government also said that, as of 9am on Thursday, there had been a further 28,680 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.

It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 3,743,734.

Government data up to January 27 shows of the 7,923,497 jabs given in the UK so far, 7,447,199 were first doses – a rise of 282,812 on the previous day’s figures.

Some 476,298 were second doses, an increase of 2,142 on figures released the previous day.

The seven-day rolling average of first doses given in the UK is now 353,422.

Based on the latest figures, an average of 419,600 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.