New figures show how many people who have tested positive for Covid-19 have died in care homes across Warwickshire
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New figures show that 78 people who have tested positive for Covid-19 have died in care homes across Warwickshire
The statistics were put together by the Office for National Statistics, broken down by English local authority area, recorded from April 10 to May 1.
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Hide AdThe ONS said the the figures record 'deaths involving Covid-19 in care homes' - in England there have been a total of 6,391 (as of May 5).
Matt Western, MP for Warwick and Leamington, said he is 'extremely concerned' by the situation in care homes.
He said: "Deaths in care homes are dramatically higher than what’s normally expected – including here in Warwickshire.
"It is important people understand that the number of ‘excess deaths’ in these homes has rocketed in past weeks.
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Hide Ad"As many people have died from Covid-19 in care homes in Warwickshire as in the whole of Australia.
"We now know that at least 6,000 people have died in care homes from Covid-19 across the UK.
"These deaths are far from inevitable - Hong Kong has no recorded deaths in care homes from coronavirus.
"Even now, patients from hospital are still being transferred into local care homes before they’ve received a negative coronavirus test result due to the Government guidance.
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Hide Ad"Some of our most vulnerable citizens, and their families, have been badly let down."
Here are the figures released for the whole of England, broken down by local authority area:
England 6,391
Barking and Dagenham 14
Barnet 40
Barnsley 28
Bath and North East Somerset 35
Bedford 14
Bexley 21
Birmingham 111
Blackburn with Darwen 6
Blackpool 7
Bolton 56
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 47
Bracknell Forest 1
Bradford 47
Brent 27
Brighton and Hove 28
Bristol, City of 82
Bromley 33
Buckinghamshire 72
Bury 36
Calderdale 25
Cambridgeshire 38
Camden 8
Central Bedfordshire 23
Cheshire East 89
Cheshire West and Chester 53
Cornwall 24
County Durham 120
Coventry 50
Croydon 30
Cumbria 81
Darlington 32
Derby 32
Derbyshire 98
Devon 55
Doncaster 11
Dorset 41
Dudley 27
Ealing 41
East Riding of Yorkshire 35
East Sussex 65
Enfield 57
Essex 123
Gateshead 47
Gloucestershire 145
Greenwich 8
Hackney 2
Halton 11
Hammersmith and Fulham 20
Hampshire 205
Haringey 10
Harrow 24
Hartlepool 20
Havering 11
Herefordshire, County of 7
Hertfordshire 166
Hillingdon 38
Hounslow 11
Isle of Wight 5
Islington 11
Kensington and Chelsea 7
Kent 146
Kingston upon Hull, City of 25
Kingston upon Thames 31
Kirklees 47
Knowsley 25
Lambeth 14
Lancashire 118
Leeds 110
Leicester 25
Leicestershire 57
Lewisham 8
Lincolnshire 28
Liverpool 98
Luton 10
Manchester 39
Medway 7
Merton 14
Middlesbrough 30
Milton Keynes 40
Newcastle upon Tyne 38
Newham 10
Norfolk 49
North East Lincolnshire 1
North Lincolnshire 7
North Somerset 10
North Tyneside 24
North Yorkshire 92
Northamptonshire 60
Northumberland 46
Nottingham 34
Nottinghamshire 108
Oldham 49
Oxfordshire 129
Peterborough 12
Plymouth 6
Portsmouth 27
Reading 44
Redbridge 13
Redcar and Cleveland 14
Richmond upon Thames 23
Rochdale 22
Rotherham 54
Rutland 0
Salford 47
Sandwell 24
Sefton 27
Sheffield 123
Shropshire 30
Slough 6
Solihull 35
Somerset 46
South Gloucestershire 27
South Tyneside 35
Southampton 28
Southend-on-Sea 14
Southwark 7
St. Helens 40
Staffordshire 115
Stockport 59
Stockton-on-Tees 10
Stoke-on-Trent 31
Suffolk 91
Sunderland 54
Surrey 162
Sutton 18
Swindon 35
Tameside 37
Telford and Wrekin 25
Thurrock 8
Torbay 20
Tower Hamlets 19
Trafford 30
Wakefield 40
Walsall 43
Waltham Forest 9
Wandsworth 15
Warrington 52
Warwickshire 78
West Berkshire 33
West Sussex 122
Westminster 3
Wigan 36
Wiltshire 94
Windsor and Maidenhead 39
Wirral 81
Wokingham 38
Wolverhampton 36
Worcestershire 92
York 22