Coronavirus in Cornwall round up: Tuesday, December 29 The latest Covid-19 case information for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has now been published. As of 4.36pm today (Tuesday, December 29) there have been 197 new cases recorded since yesterday afternoon, after 261 being recorded on Monday and 86 on Sunday. The total number of cases in the local authority area since the start of the pandemic is now 5,388. There were 571 cases recorded in the seven days leading up to December 24. Data from the most recent five days is not shown due to being incomplete. This represents a weekly rate of 99.9 cases per 100,000 people. The UK had 53,135 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 2,382,865 nationally since the start of the pandemic.
The latest Covid-19 case information for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has now been published and it sees a seemingly large rise in cases in 24 hours. As of 3.45pm today (Monday, December 28) there have been 261 new cases recorded since yesterday afternoon, following 86 cases being recorded on Sunday. The total number of cases in the local authority area since the start of the pandemic is now 5,191. There were 550 cases recorded in the seven days leading up to December 23. Data from the most recent five days is not shown due to being incomplete. This represents a weekly rate of 96.2 cases per 100,000 people.
There has been no further rise in hospital deaths in Cornwall involving a patient who tested positive for coronavirus. The last death was recorded at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust on Tuesday this week (December 22) and has now been published in figures by NHS England. It follows three deaths at the Trust last weekend and another death at the Cornwall Partnerships NHS Trust, again over the weekend, with another four deaths reported during the preceding week also. There have been 79 deaths registered to the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust and 27 to the Cornwall Partnerships NHS Trust, bringing the overall total number of hospital deaths in Cornwall to 106.
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.