There has been a second rise in deaths in two days at Cornwall's hospitals involving patients who tested positive for coronavirus.

A new death has been recorded at the Cornwall Partnerships NHS Trust - the first for the trust since back in the spring.

This was registered on Saturday (December 19), but has only just been reported in today's figures from NHS England.

It follows a further three days over the weekend, at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust - one on Saturday (December 19) and two on Sunday (December 20), with all three reported yesterday (Tuesday).

Four deaths were reported last week also.

There have now been 78 deaths registered to the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust and 27 to the Cornwall Partnerships NHS Trust, bring the overall total number of hospital deaths in Cornwall to 105.

Nationally a further 416 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 47,399.

Patients were aged between 32 and 102 years old and all except 15 of them - aged 37 to 90 years old - had known underlying health conditions.

The dates of their deaths ranged from April 19 to December 22 and their families have been informed.

Of these, 30 deaths were reported in the south west.

The latest Covid-19 case information for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has now been published this afternoon.

As of 4.04pm today (Wednesday) Cornwall is shown to have 62 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 4,570.

There were 402 cases recorded in the seven days leading up to December 18. Data from the most recent five days is not shown due to being incomplete.

This represents a weekly rate of 70.3 cases per 100,000 people.

The UK has had 39,237 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 2,149,551 nationally since the start of the pandemic.