REVEALED: Milton Keynes hotspots where Covid-19 has claimed most lives

Data released by the Office for National Statistics pinpoints fatalities linked to Covid-19 in each postcode area between March 1 and April 17.

A sobering interactive map has been created by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). You can check the map for yourself HERE.

It breaks England and Wales down into more than 7,000 neighbourhoods of about 7,000 residents each.Five out of every six of these areas has seen someone die after contracting Covid-19 by April 17.

Areas where there are care homes tend to be higher than purely residential postcodes.

The worst affected area in Milton Keynes is Newport Pagnell North, where 11 people have died. This accounted for 39 per cent of all deaths in that postcode area.

Second highest is Bletchley North West with 11 deaths, followed by Linford Wood and Bow Brickhill and Woburn Sands, with nine apiece,

All three of these areas have care homes for frail and elderly people in their midst.

Broughton has suffered six deaths and Far Bletchley five, while Willen and Downhead Park, Bletchley East, Bletchley West and Woughton and Woolstone areas have seen four each.

Three people in Olney and Lavendon have died form Covid-19, and three have also died in Bletchley south.

The following areas have suffered two deaths each: Great Linford, Stantonbury and Bradwell, Stacey Bushes and Fullers Slade, Eaglestone and Fishermead, Shenley Wood and Grange Farm, Denbigh, and Tattenhoe and Emerson Valley.

The Hanslope, Castlethorpe and Sherington area has seen just one death, as has Newport Pagnell south, Wolverton and New Bradwell, Stacey Bushes and Old Wolverton, Bradwell Village, and Westcroft and Shenley Brook End.

The following areas had suffered no deaths up until April 17: Bradwell Common, CMK and Newlands, Two Mile Ash, Loughton, Walnut Tree and Tilbrook and Furzton.

ONS date shows nationally that poorer areas n particularly badly hit by the pandemic, but Milton Keynes seem to have bucked this trend,

Nick Stripe, Head of Health Analysis at the ONS, said: “People living in more deprived areas have experienced Covid-19 mortality rates more than double those living in less deprived areas.

“General mortality rates are normally higher in more deprived areas, but so far COVID-19 appears to be taking them higher still.”