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.
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