Five more deaths recorded in Solihull

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.

There were five more coronavirus deaths recorded in the latest 24-hour period in Solihull, after thousands of deaths across England were added retrospectively.

The dashboard shows 675 people had died in the area by April 6 (Wednesday) – up from 670 on Tuesday.

They were among 17,415 deaths recorded across the West Midlands.

The figures include anyone who died within 28 days of a positive test result for Covid-19, and whose usual residence was in Solihull.

Due to a processing error, 2,714 people who died in 2022 across England were added retrospectively to the dashboard on April 6.

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

A total of 146,963 deaths were recorded throughout England by April 6 (Wednesday) – up from 144,065 the day before, before the backlog was added.