CORNWALL'S coronavirus death toll has risen today in the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
The ONS has been collating numbers for all settings, including hospitals, care homes and the wider community and this week's total has increased to 208, having been at 207 seven days ago.
The daily NHS England figures only cover deaths in hospitals and today's total remains at 91, a figure that has not risen since July 2.
The latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics today relate to the week of July 4 and July 10, but were registered up to July 18.
The only death recorded in the latest weekly figures was the death of someone from Cornwall in a hospital.
However, with no deaths having been recorded in any hospital in Cornwall in the NHS England figures since the start of July, it means either the death of the Cornish person occurred outside of the region or it has not been added to the NHS England dataset yet.
No new deaths in care homes were recorded.
The figures relate to deaths in which Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate that were registered in that time period.
The Isles of Scilly has still yet to see a Covid-19 related death.
The figures show in which local authority the deceased’s usual place of residence was.
Tuesday's NHS England figures confirmed that a further 15 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 29,202.
Patients were aged between 46 and 90 years old. Five patients, aged between 46 and 84, had no known underlying health conditions.
Their families have been informed.
No further deaths were recorded in the south west as a whole.
As of Monday night there had been 902 confirmed coronavirus cases in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. A week ago the total stood at 898.
In today's coronavirus news:
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall has said that officers will not be responding to calls concerning people not wearing face masks when they become mandatory in some settings this week.
Unemployment has reached a three-year high in Cornwall, new figures reveal, in the first indication of how the coronavirus crisis may have impacted local jobs.
But experts have warned official statistics are downplaying the “grim reality” facing Britain’s economy, as the latest figures showed no change to the national unemployment rate.
McDonald’s has confirmed it will reopen restaurants for dine-in customers from Wednesday (July 22) - ahead of some restaurants being able to take part in the Chancellor’s 'Eat Out to Help Out' scheme next month.
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