A TOTAL of seven people with Covid-19 have died in Somerset in the latest 24-hour figures.

Of those people, who had all tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days, three died in Sedgemoor, two in Mendip, one in Somerset West and Taunton, and one in South Somerset.

Deaths are recorded of people confirmed to have Covid-19 in the past 28 days in the daily figures whatever the cause.

A total of 368 Covid-19 related deaths have been recorded in Somerset since the start of the pandemic.

Of those, 110 were in South Somerset; 73 in SWT; 94 in Sedgemoor; and 91 in Mendip.