The number of daily positive Covid cases in Cornwall continue to rise in today's Government coronavirus figures.

Yesterday's update saw new positive daily cases rise to 153 and today's number, for June 18, has gone up further still to 164 in the past 24 hours.

Cases by area (last seven days) Total number of people with at least one positive COVID-19 test result, either lab-reported or lateral flow device (England only) in the most recent seven-day period has gone up to 467 cases from 411 cases yesterday. The period represented is the seven days ending five days before the date when the website was last updated.

This gives a weekly case rate per 100,000 of the population of 81.7, up from 71.9 and 59.8 on Wednesday.

This puts the overall total of cases in Cornwall since the start of the pandemic at 15,139.

There has been a slight drop in the number of people testing positive for coronavirus in the UK, with 10,476 new cases in 24 hours. It follows a large rise yesterday to 11,007 daily cases. This takes the total to 4,600,623. nationally since the start of the pandemic.

NHS England hospital daily figures are now being published every weekday, rather than every day.

Today's data shows no further hospital deaths in Cornwall following a rise of one last Thursday (June 10), which was published in the figures the following day.

The combined number of Covid-19 deaths in total in the Duchy's hospitals since the start of the pandemic is now 266.

There have now been 204 deaths at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, while at the Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust it remains at 62.

The overall number of deaths in Cornwall – including deaths in care homes and other settings – has actually dropped to 467 (from 470 previously reported) in the 28 days after a positive test on the government dashboard. This is because on Wednesday this week (June 16) the way deaths are being allocated to local authorities and regions in England changed, to take account of the address at death registration first.

Because of this, the cumulative number of deaths in each affected local authority and region changed, but the government says this will mean that there will be fewer changes to the geographical allocation of historical death counts in future.

The number of deaths simply with Covid-19 on the death certificate now stands at 572 in the most recent data available. It showed two new deaths in the week leading up to Friday, June 4, the most recent date given.

The overall UK figures show that 11 more people have died within 28 days of their first positive test result, up from nine yesterday. This means the total UK deaths within 28 days since the start of the pandemic stands at 127,956. These figures include people in care home and other settings.

Up to the end of Thursday, June 17 a total of 42,460,632 people in the UK have received their first Covid-19 vaccination dose, while 30,898,467 people have had their second dose.