One more death recorded in Newham

There was one more coronavirus death recorded over the latest weekly period in Newham.

A total of 812 people had died in the area when the UK coronavirus dashboard was updated on September 29 (Thursday) – up from 811 a week previously.

They were among 21,242 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 Newham.

A total of 166,623 deaths were recorded throughout England by September 29 (Thursday) – up from 166,228 last week.