Cornwall's coronavirus death toll has not risen today in the latest figures from NHS England.

The daily figures only cover deaths in hospitals and today's total remains at 91, a figure that has not risen since July 2.

However, the Office for National Statistics has been collating numbers for all settings, including hospitals, care homes and the wider community and in the latest figures, released yesterday, this week's total has increased to 208, having been at 207 seven days ago.

They 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.

Wednesday's NHS England figures confirmed that a further ten people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died nationally, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 29,212.

Patients were aged between 50 and 97 years old. All had known underlying health conditions.

Their families have been informed.

No further deaths were recorded in the south west as a whole.

As of Tuesday night there had been 903 confirmed coronavirus cases in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, a rise of one on the previous day's figures.

In today's coronavirus news:

A face mask exemption card was launched for anyone with the right requirements to be exempt from the law making face coverings mandatory in England's shops from July 24.

The government website reads: "In settings where face coverings are mandated in England, there are some circumstances, for health, age or equality reasons, whereby people are not expected to wear face coverings in these settings.

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Driving lessons and tests have resumed across England - with learners once again able to sit the theory and practical tests.

The resumption of lessons and tests comes three months after the Government ordered lessons and testing to be suspended for all but key workers.

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The National Trust put out a plea for people "not to fly-camp" on its land and help protect the surrounding wildlife, as the number of camper vans the charity is moving on has been doubling or tripling the number they would normally expect to see.

In the west of Cornwall 140 campervans were moved on from ten small and remote sites.

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Town councillors in Helston met to discuss a way to resolve the problem of drug use and "intimidating behaviour" being reported in Coronation Park.

Since the relaxation of coronavirus restrictions, the park had been seeing "a significant number of young people congregating" around the skate park and on the Old Cattle Market steps.

No school and the usual support for young people closed were discussed as some of the reasons.

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