The number of deaths involving Covid-19 registered each week in England and Wales has risen above 2,000 for the first time since May.
A total of 2,466 deaths that mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate were registered in the week ending November 13, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
This is the highest number of deaths involving Covid-19 since the week ending May 22.
It is also up from 1,937 deaths in the week to November 6 – a jump of 27%.
North-west England had 615 deaths involving Covid-19 registered in the week ending November 13 – the highest number for the region since the week ending May 15, according to the ONS.
In Yorkshire and the Humber, 450 Covid-19 deaths were registered in the week to November 13: again, the highest for the region since the week to May 15.
Some 284 Covid-19 deaths were registered in the West Midlands – the highest since the week to May 22 – while 245 were registered in the East Midlands: the highest since the week to May 15.
More than 71,200 deaths involving Covid-19 have now occurred in the UK, new figures show.
A total of 68,524 deaths have so far been registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, according to the latest reports from the UK’s statistics agencies.
This includes 62,162 deaths in England and Wales up to November 13 (and registered up to November 21), which were confirmed by the ONS on Tuesday.
Since these statistics were compiled, a further 2,432 deaths are known to have occurred in England, plus 80 in Scotland, 128 in Wales and 91 in Northern Ireland, according to additional data published on the Government’s coronavirus dashboard.
Together, these totals mean that so far 71,255 deaths involving Covid-19 have taken place in the UK.
