A TOTAL of 2,100 people have now tested positive for coronavirus in Oxfordshire.

The Public Health England figures rose from 2,084 last week.

Cases are now increasing by less than 0.5 per cent in the county on a par with the rate of increase across the UK.

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The 'cumulative case' figures include patients who are currently unwell, have recovered and those that have died.

Across the UK, 291,409 people had tested positive for coronavirus as of 9am on Thursday, Department of Health and Social Care figures show.

As of 5pm on Wednesday, 41,279 had died.

In Oxfordshire, no new deaths have been recorded in the official figures from the county's hospitals for three weeks.

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Oxford University Hospitals trust, which runs the John Radcliffe Hospital and the Horton General Hospital, has reported 177 deaths in total, with the last one on May 22.

Oxford Health trust, which runs the county's community hospitals and mental health facilities, has recorded 22 deaths in total, with the last one on May 21.

However, people have died outside of hospital during that time after being diagnosed with the virus.

The hospital stats also come with several caveats.

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Firstly, the daily death counts are revised each day, with each case backdated to the actual date of death.

This means some of the deaths that were first recorded in any 24-hour period may actually have taken place days earlier.

NHS England guidance states: "Confirmation of Covid-19 diagnosis, death notification and reporting in central figures can take up to several days and the hospitals providing the data are under significant operational pressure."

Only deaths that occur in hospitals where the patient has tested positive for Covid-19 are recorded in those figures.