coronavirus cases. The outbreaks are centred in the south and the Midlands and comes as Public Health England (PHE) said 41,465 people had died in the UK within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Wednesday, an increase of 16 on the day before.PHE also said as of 9am on Wednesday, there had been a further 1,048 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.
Overall, 328,846 cases have been confirmed. Among the hotspots Redditch, in Worcestershire, has seen its rate treble in the seven days to Sunday, The Mirror reports.Kettering, in Northamptonshire, also experienced a sharp rise, with the number of new infections nearly doubling in a week, while the current rate in Mid Devon is ten times higher than it was the previous week.Oxford, where.