One more death recorded in Sutton

There was one more coronavirus death recorded in the latest 24-hour period in Sutton.

The dashboard shows 563 people had died in the area by May 6 (Friday) – up from 562 on Thursday.

They were among 19,966 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 Sutton.

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

A total of 153,224 deaths were recorded throughout England by May 6 (Friday) – up from 153,021 on Thursday.