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

Eight people in Ashby (the combined figure for the north and south of the town) have lost their lives to the devastating virus, with 11 more in the villages around the town according to newly-released figures from the Office of National Statistics.

Five people lost their lives in the region including Donisthorpe and Blackfordby while two people are recorded to have died in the area including Packington, Ravenstone and Coleorton.

In the area around Melbourne and Ticknall which also includes Smisby, there were four recorded deaths.

But there were none in the Measham and Appleby Magna region during this time.

This what the figures look like in Swadlincote and Coalville

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.

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.