THE Government said a further seven people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Tuesday, bringing the UK total to 127,691.

Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have been 152,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.

The Government also said that, as of 9am on Tuesday, there had been a further 2,412 lab-confirmed cases in the UK.

It brings the total to 4,450,392 after an adjustment in the way case numbers are calculated.

This adjustment in the way cases are recorded comes after the introduction of a new system disrupted the removal of cases where a positive rapid lateral flow test was followed by all negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests taken within three days.

These 4,776 cases have now been removed.

Newly-reported cases for the UK and England were unaffected and historical published date totals have not been changed.

Newly-reported cases at regional and local authority level within England are calculated as the daily change in the total number of cases.

This means that for 18 May 2021, these show significantly lower numbers or zero, and do not reflect the actual number of new cases reported on that date.

Here are the latest figures for the region according to the Government:

County Durham: 38,242; Darlington: 7,576; Gateshead: 13,833; Hartlepool: 8,949; Middlesbrough: 12,623; Newcastle: 23,951; North Tyneside: 12,682; North Yorkshire: 30,131; Northumberland: 17,612; Redcar and Cleveland: 9,366; South Tyneside: 11,417; Stockton: 16,034; Sunderland: 22,169; York: 12,339.