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 Thursday (December 17), with the data being reported today (Saturday).

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

It means there have now been 101 hospital deaths in Cornwall since the start of the pandemic, involving patients who have tested positive for Covid-19.

Of these, 75 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.

A further 339 people, who tested positive for the Coronavirus (Covid-19) have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 46,122.

Patients were aged between 44 and 100 years old. All except 13 (aged 64 to 95 years old) had known underlying health conditions.

Date of death ranges from 5 November to 18 December 2020.

Their families have been informed.

Of these 24 were in the South West

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

As of 5.12pm today (Saturday, December 19), the local authority area had 37 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 4,297

There were 345 cases recorded in the seven days lead up to December 12. Data from the most recent five days is not shown due to being incomplete.

This represents a weekly rate of 43.9 cases per 100,000 people.

The UK had 27,052 new cases reported in the previous 24 hours.

This brings the total of cases to 2,004,219 nationally since the start of the pandemic.