The latest positive coronavirus test results in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly have been published.

As of 4pm today (November 7) the data shows that a further 30 positive cases have been confirmed in the past 24 hours.

This brings the total number of positive test results recorded in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to 2,720 since the start of the pandemic.

This represents a rate of 475.7 cases per 100,000 people since the start of the pandemic, which remains lower than many parts of the country where the majority of local authorities has a rate of over 1,000 or 2,000 people - and in some parts more than 4,000 people per 100,000.

There had been 304 cases confirmed in the seven days leading up to November 3. Data from the most recent five days is not shown due to being incomplete. This represents a weekly rate of 53.2 cases per 100,000 people.

Nationally, there have been 20,572 new cases recorded in the UK, bringing the total to 1,192,013 since the start of the pandemic.

The most recent figures from the Office National Statistics, which update every Tuesday, showed that there have been no new deaths relating to coronavirus in Cornwall registered in the preceding week.

The statistics from the ONS, which has been collating data for deaths in all settings, including hospitals, care homes and the wider community, relate to the week of October 17 to October 23, but were registered up to October 31.

The county’s most recent hospital death was on October 8 and recorded on Saturday, October 10.

The total number of hospital deaths in Cornwall remain at 94, with 68 of them recorded at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust and 26 at the Cornwall Partnerships NHS Trust.

It means that Cornwall's overall coronavirus death toll remains at 213 in the ONS figures.

While have been no further deaths in Cornwall in the last 24 hours, nationally a further 122 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 34,496.

Their families have been informed.

NHS England said the dates of the deaths ranged from October 15 to November 7.

There have been six deaths recorded in the south west in the past 24 hours.

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AN emergency food response Crowdfunder has been launched to raise cash to provide family size veg boxes to those most in need in Falmouth during the Covid-19 crisis over Christmas.

The Covid-19 Emergency Food Boxes- Xmas initiative has been launched by Community Heart, a Falmouth based social, emotional and environmental organisation, following a hugely successful scheme it ran in the spring.

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Nearly 2,000 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the last seven days across Devon and Cornwall.

The total confirmed number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic has shot up to 12,001 across the two counties today.

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Due to Covid 19 everyone missed the boat with the cancellation of this year’s annual cruise up the river with the Helford Marine Conservation Group, but at the group’s annual meeting via zoom the new chairman Dave Thomson assured members that the cruise will return in 2021.

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