The latest Covid-19 case information for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has been published.
In the most recent update, as of 4pm today (Sunday, December 20), the local authority area is shown to have 55 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 4,352.
There were 305 cases recorded in the seven days lead up to December 15. Data from the most recent five days is not shown due to being incomplete.
This represents a weekly rate of 53.3 cases per 100,000 people.
The UK has had 35,928 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 2,040,147 nationally since the start of the pandemic.
One more person died at the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust on Thursday (December 17), with the data being reported on Saturday (November 19).
It was 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.
Nationally a further 266 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 46,388.
Patients were aged between 42 and 101 years old. All except seven (aged 53 to 90 years old) had known underlying health conditions.
Dates of deaths range from November 8 to December 19 with the majority being on or after December 17. Their families have been informed.
Of these, ten deaths were reported in the south west, but none of them were in Cornwall.
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