288 further coronavirus cases and one more death recorded in Hammersmith and Fulham

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 Hammersmith and Fulham increased by 288 over the weekend, official figures show – and one more death was recorded.

A total of 55,071 cases had been confirmed in Hammersmith and Fulham when the UK coronavirus daily dashboard was updated on February 21 (Monday), up from 54,783 on Friday.

The cumulativerate of infection in Hammersmith and Fulham, which covers the whole pandemic, stands at 30,004 cases per 100,000 people, higher than the England average of 28,096.

Since January 31, the UK Health Security Agency has changed the way it reports coronavirus cases.

It means if one person tests positive for the virus more than 90 days after the first infection, two infection episodes will be recorded.

Across the UK, the number of recorded cases increased by 108,367 over the period, to 18,654,572.

People with a positive lateral flow test no longer need to take a follow-up PCR test to confirm the result unless they have coronavirus symptoms.

UK case numbers now include LFT results for England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

There was also one more coronavirus death recorded over the weekend in Hammersmith and Fulham.

The dashboard shows 299 people had died in the area by February 21 (Monday) – up from 298 on Friday.

It means there has been one death in the past week, which is the same as the previous week.

They were among 18,924 deaths recorded across London.

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

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

Figures reported on a Monday are likely to be lower as a result of a lag in reporting deaths over the weekend.

The figures also show that more than half of people in Hammersmith and Fulham have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine.

The latest figures show 130,650 people had received both jabs by February 20 (Sunday) – 58% of those aged 12 and over, based on the number of people on the National Immunisation Management Service database.

Across England, 85% of people aged 12 and above had received a second dose of the jab.

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