The number of recorded coronavirus cases in Herefordshire increased by 91 over the last 24 hours, official figures show.

Public Health England figures show that 5,395 people had been confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19 by 9am on Wednesday (January 20) in Herefordshire, up from 5,304 the same time on Tuesday.

Over the last seven days 601 new cases have been confirmed, but that's down 127 on the previous week.

The graph below shows the number of cases in Herefordshire by date of test, and not the day when the cases were published by PHE.

The Government website says the last five days' data is incomplete, thought to be due to a delay in results being processed.

So far this week, 67 new cases were reported on Monday and 68 on Tuesday.

Across the UK, the number of recorded cases increased by 38,905 in Wednesday's figures to 3,505,754.

Herefordshire's cases were among the 326,708 recorded across the West Midlands, a figure which rose by 4,542 over the period.

Cumulative case counts include patients who are currently unwell, have recovered and those that have died.

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The Government said a further 1,820 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Wednesday, bringing the UK total to 93,290.

NHS England figures show another six people have died at the Wye Valley NHS Trust after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the total to 137.

Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies for deaths where Covid-19 has been mentioned on the death certificate, together with additional data on deaths that have occurred in recent days, show there have now been 110,000 deaths involving Covid-19 in the UK.

Meanwhile Government data up to January 19 shows of the 5,070,365 jabs given in the UK so far, 4,609,740 were first doses – a rise of 343,163 on the previous day’s figures.

Some 460,625 were second doses, an increase of 3,759 on figures released the previous day.

The seven-day rolling average of first doses given in the UK is now 281,490.

Based on the latest figures, an average of 399,625 first doses of vaccine would be needed each day in order to meet the Government’s target of 15 million first doses by February 15.

The Government has not released localised statistics.