There has been a further rise in the number of deaths relating to coronavirus in Cornwall.

One more person died at the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust yesterday (December 17), with the data being reported today (Friday).

It is the third confirmed hospital death this week, following two deaths being recorded within the Trust on Wednesday. Both patients died on Saturday, December 12.

It means there have now been 100 hospital deaths in Cornwall since the start of the pandemic, involving patients who have tested positive for Covid-19.

Of these, 74 of them have been at Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust hospitals and the remaining 26 took place at the Cornwall Partnerships NHS Trust earlier in the year.

Nationally a further 317 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 45,783.

Of these, 19 deaths were reported in the south west.

Patients were aged between 35 and 100 years old. All except eight (aged 60 to 97 years old) had known underlying health conditions, according to NHS England.

The date of their deaths ranged from November 4 to December 17 and their families have been informed.

The latest data detailing cases of Covid-19 in Cornwall has now been published this evening. 

As of 5.12pm today (Friday, December 18), the local authority area had 54 new cases recorded in the previous 24 hours.

The government website states that the total number of cases recorded in the local authority area since the start of the pandemic now sits at 4,260.

There were 196 cases recorded in the seven days lead up to December 11. Data from the most recent five days is not shown due to being incomplete.

This represents a weekly rate of 34.3 cases per 100,000 people.

The UK had 28,507 new cases reported in the previous 24 hours.

This brings the total of cases to 1,977,167 nationally since the start of the pandemic.