Coronavirus update: No new deaths reported in Bucks as UK alert level downgraded

Data shows that 124 people are reported to have died in hospitals in Buckinghamshire with coronavirus between 1 March – 18 June, and 120 people have died in the region's care homes with the virus between 10 April – 12 June. Data for Buckinghamshire does not include figures for Milton Keynes.

Across the UK, the death toll is now 42,461 after a further 173 people were reported to have died in all settings in the past 24 hours.

The coronavirus alert level has been relaxed from four to three today in the UK.

Level four meant transmission was high or rising exponentially, whereas level three means that while the virus is acknowledged as still being in general circulation, there can be a gradual relaxation of lockdown restrictions. In reality, this relaxation began on 1 June when schools began to reopen.

Globally, coronavirus has now sadly claimed the lives of 457,344 people.