AN interactive map using government data has revealed the number of Covid deaths in the Halstead area.

The interactive map, by the Office for National Statistics, allows you to see the number of deaths registered from March to January 2020 where Covid was the main cause on the death certificate.

Tracking deaths across Halstead and Braintree since the pandemic began, the size of the circle on the map represents the number of deaths.

Neighbourhoods are broken down via Middle layer Super Output Areas (MSOAs), a system designed to improve the reporting of small areas with an average population of 7,200.

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Halstead East and Colnes is the worst impacted area and has the highest number of recorded deaths in the district.

A shocking 26 of the total 44 deaths came in January alone.

Here are the number of deaths recorded in January and the total number for the pandemic as a whole:

Halstead

Halstead East and Colnes - 26 in January, 44 overall

Bocking Chruchstreet and Blackwater - 14 in January, 30 overall

Hedingham, Gosfield and Greenstead Green- 8 in January, 14 overall

Halstead Central and West - 4 in January, 13 overall

Silver End and Stisted - 6 in January, 12 overall

Marks Tey and Wakes Colne - 5 in January, 8 overall

Steeple Bumpstead and Great Yeldham - 4 in January, 6 overall

Bures Hamlet, Maplestead and Belchamp - 3 in January, 5 overall

Panfield, Finchingfield and Bardfield - 2 in January, 6 overall

Braintree

Great Notley and Black Notley - 14 in January, 22 overall

Central Braintree - 9 in January, 19 overall

Bocking - 16 in January, 17 overall

Coggeshall and Kelvedon - 6 in January, 18 overall

Great Leighs and Walthams - 7 in January, 15 overall

Braintree South - 12 in January, 16 overall

Briantree West and Rayne - 8 in January, 14 overall

Flitch Green, Felsted and High Easter - 5 in January, 13 overall

It comes as north east Essex is now ranked first in the East of England, and third nationally, for the coverage of first Covid vaccination doses given to its adult population.

The latest national published figures record that on Sunday, February 21, 40.8 per cent of the system's adult population had been given their first jab - that equates to 329,002 people.