LATEST figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show the number of deaths recorded in each individual area of Devon and Cornwall between March and November.

A total of 14,691 deaths across Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly were registered in the nine month period, with 647 of them having Covid-19 mentioned on the death certificate as the main cause of death.

Some of the 14,044 deaths ‘due to other causes’ includes deaths where the underlying cause was not COVID-19, but that COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate as a contributory cause of death.

It means that 4.4% of all deaths in Devon and Cornwall in that nine month period were because of Covid-19.

The figures show across the two counties, there were 15 deaths in March, 345 in April, 140 in May, 18 in June, 4 in July and August, 6 in September, 28 in October and 87 in November.

Areas where no Covid-19 deaths have yet to be recorded are Tamerton Foilot, King’s Tamerton & West Park, Preston & Shorton, Mid Saltash, Grampound Road, St Newlyn East and Cubert, Torpoint, Kingsand, Antony & Maryfield, St Day & Lanner, Padstow & St Issey, St Breward, Tredethy & Lanivet, Dunkesewell, Upottery & Stockland, Kilmington, Colyton & Uplyme, Poppleford, Otterton & Woodbury, Ilfracombe East, Lynton & Combe Martin, Barnstaple Sticklepath, Fremington & Instow, South Brent & Cornwood, Dartmouth, Wembury, Brixton & Newton Ferrers, Salcombe, Malborough & Thurlestone, Tedburn, Shillingford & Higher Ashton, Heathfield & Liverton, Teignmouth North, Newton Abbot, Highweek, Newton Abbot, Town Centre, Hartland Coast, Great Torrington, Winkleigh & High Bickington, Bere Alston, Buckland Monachorum & Yelverton and the Isles of Scilly.

In terms of deaths in November, the area with the highest number was Wellswood in Torbay, with five deaths, with Brixham Town (4), Mannamead & Hartley, Peverell, Wonford & St Loye’s and Dawlish South (3) the only other areas with more than two deaths.