THE number of deaths from Covid in the Winchester has been reduced from 183 to 178.

Public Health England has re-examined the addresses of deceased people and made adjustments. Portsmouth has also been reduced from 371 to 365 but Southampton has risen from 320 to 326.

PHE says overall, nationwide, the number of deaths is unaffected by the adjustment. From now on it will be the address noted at registration will take precedence.

It still means there have been no deaths in the district, within 28 days of being diagnosed with Covid-19, for 106 days, since March 3.

In the Hampshire Hospitals area that includes the hospitals in Winchester, Basingstoke and Andover there have been no reported deaths for 54 days and only four Covid patients, with three in Basingstoke and one at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester.

But numbers of people with Covid has been edging up in Winchester as with most of the country with 279 of the 315 local authorities seeing increases (89 per cent).

Across the district there are six places with more than two cases in the seven days to Friday June 11, the most recent day for which such figures are available.

They are: Winchester East, three cases, up one, (50 per cent) for a rolling figure per 100,000 people of 36.8; Colden Common and Twyford, three, up one, 50 per cent, for rolling 31.5; South Wonston Sutton Scotney and Micheldever, four, up two, 100 per cent, for rolling 68.1, the highest in the district but below the national average; Bishop's Waltham and Waltham Chase, four, up two, 100 per cent, rolling 41.3; Whiteley, Knowle and Wickham, three cases, down one (25 per cent), rolling 25.6 cases per 100,000 people; and Denmead and Southwick, four cases, no change, rolling 39.0.

Winchester district as a whole has rolling rate of 26.4 per 100,000, below the national average. In the week to June 11 it had seen 33 new cases, up 12, or 57 per cent. Some 5,034 cases have been reported in Winchester district since the start of the pandemic.

No Winchester schools are currently affected and only 24 in Hampshire, with 13 of them in the north-east, in Basingstoke, Hart and Rushmoor.

Today there were 78 better performing local authority areas out of 315 in the UK. One June 1 there were 82.

On vaccinations, data shows that a total of 84,185 people have had their first dose in Winchester district and 62,697 have had both, as of yesterday. Most days recently those having second doses have outnumbered firsts. But now vaccines are available to almost all adults the number of first doses is rising again. Yesterday there were 763 first doses and 295 second.