UPDATE: Bedford records 10 new confirmed cases in the last 24 hours

As of today (March 11), Bedford has recorded 10 new cases of coronavirus, with a total of 13,174 people now diagnosed with the virus, according to the latest figures from Public Health England.

There was one death in Bedford (483), no deaths in Central Bedfordshire (565) and one in Luton (486).

Central Bedfordshire has 31 new Covid cases with a total of 15,343, while Luton recorded 36 with a new total of 19,229.

Meanwhile, Buckinghamshire now has 30,528 cases of Covid, Hertfordshire has 74,893 and Milton Keynes has 19,406 cases.

The new figures are recorded between 5pm the previous day to 5pm and unfortunately don't include the number of patients who have recovered from Covid-19.

Nationally, the number of coronavirus cases has risen by 6,753 and now stands at 4,241,677. The number of deaths has risen by 181 to 125,168.

As of March 10, in the UK, 23,053,716 people had received the first dose of the vaccination for COVID-19, and 1,351,515 had received their second dose.

The figures come from the Government website which is available for the public to view here.