Coronavirus latest: Six new cases confirmed in Luton

The total new of cases in the borough now stands at 1,710 (+6).

Elsewhere in the county, Central Bedfordshire has 1,338 (+6) cases, while Bedford's figure stands at 1,413 (+0).

Altogether, 326,614 people across the UK have been diagnosed with coronavirus, up by 853 since yesterday.

Public Health England is re-evaluating how it analyses Covid-19 deaths.

New deaths will only be recorded as Covid-19-related if they occurred within 28 days of the patient's first diagnosis of coronavirus.

It was announced last week that Public Health England (PHE) is to be scrapped in favour of a new health organisation.

Baroness Dido Harding is to become the interim executive chair of the new National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP), which will be responsible for preventing future outbreaks of infectious diseases.

Baroness Harding is a Conservative peer who runs England’s heavily criticised NHS Test and Trace system, which she has been in charge of since May.

She was given a life peerage in 2014 by former Prime Minister David Cameron, and previously held a variety of senior roles at TalkTalk, Sainsbury's and Tesco.

She is married to former minister John Penrose - who has been linked to think tank group 1828 that is calling for the NHS to be replaced by a private health insurance system.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said last week: “I have no doubt that under Baroness Harding, we will found the NIHP as a thriving, mission-driven organisation.

"We have a common mission, the greatest mission of any of our working lives, and we have no time to lose in building the institution of the future.”