MORE THAN 80 per cent of people in Whitchurch have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, government figures show.

An interactive map, launched by the government, shows the numbers of people in each local authority area who have received their first and second doses.

Vaccination uptake is shown as a percentage of all people aged 18 and over and these numbers are calculated by dividing the total number of people who have received a vaccination by the population and multiplying by 100.

Using these figures, in total, 82.7 per cent of Whitchurch residents have received their first dose, with 64.8 per cent receiving their second.

The figure in Wem is slightly higher, with 83.7 per cent receiving their fist dose and 76.2 per cent receiving both doses.

And in Cheshire, the figure for Malpas and surrounding areas the figure is 84.1 per cent, with 65.5 per cent having received their second vaccine.

Meanwhile the number of recorded coronavirus cases in Shropshire increased by 93 in the last 24 hours, official figures show.

Public Health England figures show that 15,942 people had been confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19 by 9am on Wednesday, June 30 in Shropshire, up from 15,849 the same time on Tuesday.

The health body recently changed the way it records the figures.

Cases identified through a positive lateral flow test – those which can deliver results within half an hour – will no longer be 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.

The rate of infection in Shropshire now stands at 4,934 cases per 100,000 people, far lower than the England average of 7,416.

Across the UK, the number of recorded cases increased by 26,068 over the period, to 4,800,907.

Shropshire's cases were among the 456,505 recorded across the West Midlands, a figure which rose by 1,979 over the period.

Cumulative case counts include patients who are currently unwell, have recovered and those that have died.