The latest Covid case information for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has been published.
In the most recent update, as of 4.00pm today (Thursday, November 26), the local authority area is shown to have 32 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 3,657.
The website stated that the data is not available to show the number of cases recorded in the seven days leading up to November 21. (Data from the most recent five days is not shown due to being incomplete.)
It does, however, report the weekly rate as being 59.1 cases per 100,000 people, which continues to show the rolling rate steadily dropping over the previous few days.
The UK had 17,555 new cases reported, bringing the total to 1,574,562 nationally since the start of the pandemic.
A hospital death in Cornwall was recorded on Saturday - at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust.
The patient died on Thursday, November 19 after testing positive for coronavirus and it was noted in Saturday's figures from NHS England.
The total number of hospital deaths in Cornwall stands at 96, with 70 of them recorded at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust and 26 at the Cornwall Partnerships NHS Trust.
Nationally, a further 351 people, who tested positive for the Coronavirus (Covid-19) have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 39,570.
Patients were aged between 30 and 102 years old. All except 11 (aged 38 to 90 years old) had known underlying health conditions.
Date of death ranges from October 29 to November 25 with the majority being on or after November 23.
Their families have been informed.
Of these, 23 people were in the south west, but none in Cornwall.
In other coronavirus news:
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has today announced that Cornwall is to go into Covid Tier One restrictions when the current lockdown restrictions end on December 2.
Cornwall is the only county in the country to go into Tier One, along with the Isle of Wight.
The government has today announced which lockdown tier will be assigned to each part of England when the country moves out of national lockdown on December 2.
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