Eleven more people have died in the North East after contracting coronavirus.
A total of 143 deaths were reported by NHS England on Tuesday afternoon, taking the total number of Covid-19 -related fatalities in the country to 26,865.
Of those, 19 occurred on June 1, 34 were confirmed on May 31 and a further 20 were recorded on May 30.
The figures also revealed 58 of the new deaths took place between May 5 and May 29, eight occurred in April, and the remaining four deaths took place in March, with the earliest on March 22.
NHS England confirmed the latest victims were aged between 36 and 100 - including eight with no underlying health conditions.
In the North East, there were six deaths reported by South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the highest in the region, while there were two further deaths announced by County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust.
Latest North East deaths by NHS trust
County Durham and Darlington - 2
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear - 0
Gateshead - 1
Northumbria - 0
South Tyneside and Sunderland - 0
Newcastle - 0
North Tees and Hartlepool - 2
South Tees - 6
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys - 0
The figures come after a Public Health England review confirmed black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people in the UK are more likely to die from coronavirus.
The review, released on Tuesday, found that people of Bangladeshi ethnicity had around twice the risk of death than people of white British ethnicity.
People of Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, other Asian, Caribbean and black ethnicity had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death.
Members of black ethnic groups were most likely to be diagnosed with Covid-19, there was a spike in deaths of carers and transport workers, and men were more likely to die than women, the review into disparities around the risk of coronavirus also found.
It added that 169 care workers and home care workers and six senior care workers have died with the virus.
