A CORONAVIRUS death map allows users to see how many people from their area have died after being diagnosed with the disease.

A total of 119 deaths are known to have occurred in hospitals across East Lancashire with many more fatalities taking place in care homes and within the community.

And now a map designed by the Office for National Statistics allows users to see how many people in their local ward have died from a Covid-19 related illness.

By entering your postcode into this map, you will be able to see how many coronavirus-related deaths have occurred near you between March 1 and April 17.

Lancashire Telegraph:

Which areas have the highest and lowest numbers?

  • The two postcodes with the highest number of recorded deaths, six each, are      Queengate Burnley and Colne Horsfield.
  • The postcodes of Rosehill and Burnley Wood; Habergham and Ightenhill; Meadowhill in Blackburn have all registered five deaths.
  • There have been no recorded deaths in the wards of Read, Sabden and Chatburn in the Ribble Valley.

How was this figured out?

According to the ONS, points on the map are places at the centre of the local area they represent and do not show the actual location of deaths.

To protect confidentiality, a small number of deaths have been reallocated between neighbouring areas.

This map includes all deaths occurring between March 1 and April 17 but exclude the death of non-residents.

Deaths are included where the underlying course was Covid-19 or the virus was mentioned on the death certificate as a contributory factor.

What is the total death toll across the country and in Lancashire?

According to official figures, 90,232 people died in England and Wales between March 1 and April 17, of which 20,283 were from coronavirus.

Across the whole of the country, the figure stands at 26,771.

On Friday, the Lancashire Telegraph wrote that a further ten coronavirus related deaths had been recorded across the county.

Three of those took place in hospitals operated by the East Lancashire Hospitals Trust.

Three deaths were also recorded in facilities managed by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Southport and Ormskirk Foundation Trust.

No new deaths were recorded in any of the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust facilities and one death was reported in hospitals operation by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals.

The total death toll for Lancashire now stands at 624.