113 further coronavirus cases and one more death recorded in Crawley

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 Crawley increased by 113 in the last 24 hours, official figures show – and one more death was recorded.

A total of 34,298 cases had been confirmed in Crawley when the UK coronavirus daily dashboard was updated on February 16 (Wednesday), up from 34,185 on Tuesday.

The cumulativerate of infection in Crawley, which covers the whole pandemic, stands at 30,494 cases per 100,000 people, far higher than the England average of 27,811.

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 53,755 over the period, to 18,447,706.

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 in the latest 24-hour period in Crawley.

The dashboard shows 237 people had died in the area by February 16 (Wednesday) – up from 236 on Tuesday.

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

They were among 20,414 deaths recorded across the South East.

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

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 Crawley have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine.

The latest figures show 79,767 people had received both jabs by February 15 (Tuesday) – 75% 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.