The latest information relating to Covid-19 in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has now been updated.

There have now been no further hospital deaths recorded for the third day running.

At Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust the total number of deaths still stands at 168, with the Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust total remaining at 55.

The combined number of Covid-19 deaths in total in Cornwall's hospitals since the start of the pandemic remains at 223.

The overall number of deaths in Cornwall – including deaths in care homes and other settings – has actually gone down by one in today's Government dashboard figures, now sitting as 404 deaths in the 28 days after a positive test result compared to 405 yesterday. No explanation has been given for this.

The number of deaths simply with Covid-19 on the death certificate remains at 378, with this figure updated weekly on a Tuesday.

A further 231 people, who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 79,120.

Patients were aged between 31 and 102 years old. All except 12 – aged 53 to 92 years old – had known underlying health conditions and their families have been informed.

The date of the death ranged from December 24, 2020 to February 14, 2021 with the majority being on or after February 11.

Of those six were in the south west.

The overall UK figures today show 230 more people to have died within 28 days of their first positive test result.

This takes the total number of UK deaths within 28 days to 117,396. These figures include people in care home and other settings.

As of 4pm today (Monday, February 15) there have been 24 new cases of Covid-19 recorded in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in the previous 24 hours.

The total number of cases in the local authority area since the start of the pandemic now sits at 13,314.

The seven-day rolling total of cases is now 406 cases recorded in the seven days leading up to February 8. Data from the most recent five days is not shown due to being incomplete.

This represents a weekly rate of 71.0 cases per 100,000 people.

The number of people testing positive for coronavirus in the UK has increased by 9,765 in 24 hours.

This brings the total to 4,047,843 nationally since the start of the pandemic.

As of today (Monday, February 15) 15,300,151 people in the UK have received their first Covid-19 vaccination dose, while 539,630 people have had their second dose.