The latest information relating to Covid-19 has now been updated.

There have still been no further hospital deaths recorded in the county in today's figures, involving patients testing positive for Covid-19.

The total number of Covid-related deaths at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust remains at 200 while at the Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust it is 62.

The combined number of Covid-19 deaths in total in Cornwall's hospitals since the start of the pandemic remains at 262.

The overall number of deaths in Cornwall – including deaths in care homes and other settings – is 464 in the 28 days after a positive test, due to a difference in reporting times by NHS England and the Government dashboard.

The number of deaths simply with Covid-19 on the death certificate is now 562 registered up to March 12, the most recent data available. This figure is updated weekly on a Tuesday and includes 3 further deaths in the latest total.

A further 31 people, who tested positive for the Coronavirus (Covid-19) have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 86,265.

Patients were aged between 57 and 100 years old. All except two (aged 57 to 83 years old) had known underlying health conditions.

Date of death ranges from 3 April 2020 to 30 March 2021 with the majority being on or after 27 March.

None of the deaths were in South West

The number of deaths of patients with Covid-19 by region are as follows: The overall UK figures show 43 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 126,713. These figures include people in care home and other settings.

As of 4pm today (Wednesday, March 31) there have been 12 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 is now 14,052.

Today 105 cases have been reported in the seven days leading to March 26. The most recent five days are not shown due to incomplete data.

The weekly rate has fallen to 18.4 cases per 100,000 people, from 19.6 cases yesterday. 

The number of people testing positive for coronavirus in the UK has increased by 4,052 in 24 hours. This takes the total to 4,345,788 nationally since the start of the pandemic.

As of (Wednesday, March 31) 30,905,538 people in the UK have had received their first Covid-19 vaccination dose, while 4,108,536 people have had their second dose.