129 further coronavirus cases and three more deaths recorded in Havering

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 Havering increased by 129 in the last 24 hours, official figures show – and three more deaths were recorded.

A total of 79,480 cases had been confirmed in Havering when the UK coronavirus daily dashboard was updated on February 18 (Friday), up from 79,351 on Thursday.

The cumulativerate of infection in Havering, which covers the whole pandemic, stands at 30,493 cases per 100,000 people, far higher than the England average of 27,946.

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 47,147 over the period, to 18,546,205.

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 were also three more coronavirus deaths recorded in the latest 24-hour period in Havering.

The dashboard shows 970 people had died in the area by February 18 (Friday) – up from 967 on Thursday.

It means there have been four deaths in the past week, which is a decrease on five the previous week.

They were among 18,909 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 Havering.

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

The figures also show that three-quarters of people in Havering have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine.

The latest figures show 173,874 people had received both jabs by February 17 (Thursday) – 74% 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.