ONE person died from coronavirus in Worcestershire’s hospitals in the last week, according to the latest available figures.

The single hospital death was the only one to be recorded across ‘all settings’ in the county in the week up to July 16.

Nobody in the county died from Covid in a care home, hospice, communal establishment or elsewhere.

The figures do not say which hospital the person died in.

No deaths were recorded at home in the same week, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

The death in Wychavon is the second Covid death in two weeks in Worcestershire’s hospitals and follows on from more than a month where no hospital deaths were recorded in the county.

The latest announcement means there have been at least 1,361 deaths from Covid across ‘all settings’ in Worcestershire which includes hospices and care homes during the pandemic.

Of those deaths, 872 have taken place in hospital.

A total of 203 deaths were registered in Worcester compared to 277 deaths in both Wychavon, which includes Evesham, Pershore and Droitwich, and Wyre Forest.

According to the figures, 267 people have died in Bromsgrove, 193 people have died from Covid in Redditch and 144 people have died from the virus in Malvern Hills.

The latest Public Health England figures show 2,568 new cases were recorded in Worcestershire in the week up July 22 – a fall of just over nine per cent compared to the week before.

Cases also fell by almost 22 per cent in a week in Worcester dropping to 545 cases.

A total of 532 cases were recorded in Brosmgrove due to a fall of eight per cent compared to the previous week and cases increased by eight per cent in Redditch to 383.

New cases also fell in Malvern Hills where a 13 per cent drop meant a total of 260 cases were recorded in the week.

An eleven per cent drop in the week in Wychavon saw the total number of cases recorded across the district fall to 421.

NHS figures show a total of 366,160 people in Worcestershire are now vaccinated having received both doses of a Covid vaccine – just under 72 per cent of those eligible.