July 8 Update: 71 new Swindon covid cases as national total passes 5m

By Barrie Hudson - 8 July 2021

Health

The latest report from NHS England has revealed that there have been no deaths from covid reported at Great Western Hospital in the last 24 hours. It has been 58 days since the last such death was reported. This means the coronavirus death toll at Great Western Hospital since the start of the outbreak remains at 323. These figures are correct up to 4pm yesterday.

According to the data released at 4pm today there have been 71 new confirmed coronavirus cases reported in the last 24 hours in Swindon, meaning the total has risen to 12,598 confirmed cases since the start of the outbreak. In the last seven days there have been 423 new confirmed cases in Swindon. In Wiltshire there have been 127 new cases in the past 24 hours, meaning the number of people who have tested positive in Wiltshire is 19,707. This means that in the last seven days there have been 857 new confirmed cases in Wiltshire. These figures are split by local authority. Please note that these new cases are the figures reported by Public Health England and do not take into account delays in the return of positive test results.
 

As of 9am on 8 July, 5,022,893 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the UK. This is a rise of 32,551 positive tests in the last 24 hours.

As of 5pm on 7 July, of those tested positive for coronavirus in the UK who died within 28 days of their test, 128,336 have died across all settings. This is an increase of 35.

To find out how Swindon Link puts its daily figures together press here.

 
 

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