UPDATE: Bedford records big leap in coronavirus cases today

Central Beds records 24
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As of today (October 8), Bedford has recorded 33 new cases, with a total of 1,815 people now diagnosed with coronavirus, according to the latest figures from Public Health England.

Central Bedfordshire has 24 new cases of Covid, with a total of 1,704 and Luton has 47, with a new total of 2,278.

Meanwhile, Buckinghamshire has 2,648 cases, Hertfordshire has 6,945 and Milton Keynes has 1,317 cases.

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Nationally, the death toll has been 'recalculated' by officials. The new count is based on a new definition of who has died from Covid-19.

Previously, people in England who died at any stage following a positive test, regardless of the cause of their death, were counted in the figures.

However, there is now a cut off point of 28 days from the first laboratory-confirmed positive COVID test.

The new figures are recorded between 5pm the previous day to 5pm.

There have been 561,815 lab-confirmed cases in the UK, rising by 17,540. The number of deaths has risen by 77 to 42,592.

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