The latest Covid case information for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has been published.
In the most recent update, as of 4pm today (Saturday, December 5), the local authority area is shown to have 20 new cases recorded in the preceding 24 hours.
The government website states that the total number of cases in the local authority area now sits at 3,834.
There were 141 cases recorded in the seven days lead up to November 30. Data from the most recent five days is not shown due to being incomplete.
This represents a weekly rate of 24.7 cases per 100,000 people.
The UK has had 15,539 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 1,705,971 nationally since the start of the pandemic.
Yesterday saw a further rise in the number of people who have died in Cornwall after testing positive for coronavirus.
Friday's update from NHS England showed that one more person had died at the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust, bringing the total to 71.
Their death was recorded on Wednesday (November 2).
The last confirmed hospital death before that was on Thursday, November 19.
The total number of hospital deaths in Cornwall stands at 97, with the remaining 26 taking place at the Cornwall Partnerships NHS Trust earlier in the year.
Nationally a further 315 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 42,194.
Patients were aged between 32 and 103 years old. All except seven - aged 64 to 96 years old - had known underlying health conditions, according to NHS England.
The dates of their deaths ranged from April 13 to December 4 and their families have been informed.
In today's other coronavirus news:
The company responsible for running most of Cornwall's leisure centres has warned people to 'use them or lose them' to protect them from permanent closure.
Sports centres and swimming pools have now reopened again after the second lockdown. But James Curry, GLL’s head of service in Cornwall, said it was important people used the centres under the new Covid-safe regulations, to make sure they stayed open.
New cases of coronavirus in the south west are expected to fall at a more rapid pace according to the latest data from the government.
Government and SAGE (the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) believe that in the south west the virus could start to shrink by as much as -4 per cent each day.
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