One more death recorded in South Kesteven

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.

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

The dashboard shows 340 people had died in the area by April 13 (Wednesday) – up from 339 on Tuesday.

Due to a delay in receiving data from one source, the number of deaths recorded across England on April 13 includes any which should have been reported on Tuesday.

It means there have been three deaths in the past week.

They were among 13,574 deaths recorded across the East Midlands.

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

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

A total of 148,695 deaths were recorded throughout England by April 13 (Wednesday) – up from 148,080 on Tuesday.