More than 170,000 people have had Covid-19 in Black Country and Staffordshire
A total of 172,419 people have had Covid-19 across the Black Country and Staffordshire, the latest figures show.
It comes after Public Health England changed the way it reported the figures from Friday.
Revision to historical case data in England also led to the removal of 5,500 cases nationally over three days last week.
The number of positive cases reported across the region by 9am on Monday was 280 higher than last Monday.
Meanwhile 7,592 people have died in hospitals in the Black Country, Staffordshire and Birmingham after testing positive for Covid since the start of the pandemic, in the latest figures published on Monday.
Cases that are identified through a positive lateral flow test – those which can deliver results within half an hour – are no longer being counted if the person then takes a PCR test, which is sent to a lab to be checked, and receives a negative result within three days.
These cases are now being removed daily.
Across the UK, the number of recorded cases was 12,144 higher than last Monday, with the total now standing at 4,464,900.
The Black Country and Staffordshire's cases were among the 432,700 recorded across the West Midlands, a figure which rose by 895 over the period.
Cumulative case counts include patients who are currently unwell, have recovered and those that have died.
