THE death toll from the Coronavirus outbreak in Swadlincote and the surrounding areas - up to the middle of April - has been revealed for the first time.

Twelve people in Swadlincote - the combined figure from five separate sections of the town - have lost their lives to the devastating virus according to newly-released figures from the Office of National Statistics.

And another 14 more have fallen victims in the villages around Swadlincote.

Six people lost their lives in the region which includes Castle Gresley and Overseal, while four people are recorded to have died in the area including Moira and Blackfordby.

The South Derbyshire areas around Hartshorne, Ticknall and Melbourne have suffered four deaths.

The ONS stats apply from March 1 to April 17 and come from a newly-published ONS interactive map which shows all Covid fatalities in England and Wales which were registered before April 18.

The map, which excludes the number of non-residents who have may have died in the area, allows anyone to discover how many have succumbed to Covid in a given postcode area.

You can access the map HERE Covid 19 map by entering your postcode.

In Swadlincote's case it breaks down as one recorded death in the central area but four to the north including Midway.

The east of the town, including Woodville, has one death but the west of the town, including Newhall, recorded three along with the areas to the south which includes Church Gresley.

This what the figures look like in Ashby and Coalville

Figures show the infection has also killed twice as many people in poorer areas compared with wealthy ones.

For example, in Wales, the most deprived regions suffered 44.6 deaths per 100,000 population – almost twice the least deprived area with 23.2 Covid deaths per 100,000 population.

Friday's tally of 27,510 deaths – up 739 on the previous day with the combined total including figures from hospitals, care homes and the wider community.– puts the UK in third place in the global fatality table behind Italy (27,967) and the US (63,861). The world total is now 235,000.

America's one million plus recorded cases makes up a third of the global total of 3.3 million people testing positive for the virus.

The UK has seen its confirmed cases pass the 170,000 mark – Thursday's figure being up a further 6,032 to 171,253. It has now overtaken the German and French totals and put the UK in fourth place in the 'case' league table

Kent remains the UK's 'hot spot' for coronavirus in the upper tier local authority table with 3,331 people testing positive for the virus – Birmingham remains in second spot with 2,801.