A year on from the when the UK's first lockdown was called, we have compiled death figures highlighting the tragic impact of the disease in Watford.

In the town 7,773 people had tested positive for Covid-19 by the morning of March 18, Public Health England data shows.

According to the Office for National Statistics, 261 deaths involving the virus were provisionally registered in the area up to March 13 - and 202 of those occurred in hospitals.

There were also 44 deaths in care homes, 13 at private homes, and two in hospices, community establishments or elsewhere.

It means deaths which happened outside hospital settings accounted for 23 per cent of the overall toll.

Where and when did people die?

An interactive map shows how many people have died with Covid in your local area. The deaths are also broken down by month.

This allows you to see the number of deaths registered in the period March 2020 to February 2021, where Covid was the underlying (main) cause on the death certificate.

Enter your postcode to see the number of deaths in your area. The size of the circle represents the number of deaths.

Did the lockdowns have an effect?

The following graph shows the number of positive cases in the city by specimen date – when the person tested positive.

Highlighted in yellow are the three dates which marked the start of lockdown 1, 2 and 3. These were March 23, November 11 and January 5 respectively.

Health experts have repeatedly said "excess deaths" – the number of deaths above the annual expected number – are a better measure of the overall impact of the coronavirus pandemic than simply looking at mortality directly linked to Covid-19.

ONS figures on this show that 907 people died of all causes in Watford between March 2020 and February 2021 – the latest available data.

That was 26 per cent above the 722 deaths which occurred over the same period a year earlier.