NEARLY 400 new Covid cases have been recorded in one day in Oxfordshire as two new deaths were announced.

According to Public Health England, as of 9am Tuesday, these were the number of new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours;

  • Oxford - 94
  • Oxfordshire - 383
  • UK - 36,804

The total coronavirus cases since the pandemic started;

  • Oxford - 4,357
  • Oxfordshire - 13,784
  • UK - 2,110,314

Cumulative case counts include patients who are currently unwell, have recovered and those that have died.
It comes as a further 691 people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test on Tuesday.

This takes the UK death toll to 68,307.

Two deaths were also announced in figures published by NHS England at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH).

It means the death toll of patients who tested positive for Covid-19 at the trust, which also runs the Churchill, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Banbury's Horton General Hospital, is 227.