79 further coronavirus cases and one more death recorded in Sutton

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 Sutton increased by 79 in the last 24 hours, official figures show – and one more death was recorded.

A total of 24,834 people had been confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19 in Sutton when the UK coronavirus daily dashboard was updated on October 5 (Tuesday), up from 24,755 on Monday.

The rate of infection in Sutton now stands at 11,956 cases per 100,000 people, lower than the England average of 11,990.

Across the UK, the number of recorded cases increased by 33,049 over the period, to 7,967,985.

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

The dashboard shows 448 people had died in the area by October 5 (Tuesday) – up from 447 on Monday.

It means there have been two deaths in the past week, which is an increase on one the previous week.

They were among 16,467 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.

The national total number of deaths reported today may include a number which were unreported yesterday due to a delay from one data source.

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

Vaccination uptake for the UK has been suspended to allow developers to work on a solution to include 12 to 15-year-olds.