Rutland recorded one death and 12 cases of Covid-19 yesterday.

This means the county has now recorded 33 deaths, an increase of six over the week.

In Rutland, this means about one-in-1400 has died with the virus since the pandemic started.

Rutland's 13 fresh cases now puts it on 1044 in total. This gives a rate 2614.8 cases per 100,000, meaning about one-in-40 has caught the virus since the pandemic started.

However, the county's 7 day rate keeps on fluctuating, with a decrease to 240.4 cases per 100,000 yesterday, based on the 96 cases recorded over the past week. For much of the week, the rate has been in the 230s and 240s though it was at 265.5 last weekend.

Even so, Rutland's seven day rate is about half of the England average of 472.9 cases per 100,000.

The figures came as Greater Lincolnshire reported 1,643 new coronavirus cases and 83 COVID-related deaths this week – compared to 1,670 cases and 71 deaths last week.

Some 304 new cases and 17 deaths were reported in Greater Lincolnshire on Friday – the third day in a row with 17 deaths.

The government's COVID-19 dashboard on Friday recorded 252 new cases in Lincolnshire, 28 in North Lincolnshire and 24 in North East Lincolnshire.

Among the districts, South Kesteven recorded 67 cases today, compared with 76 cases on Thursday, 65 on Wednesday, 42 on Tuesday and 78 on Monday.

This gives a grand total of 5,524 cases since the start of the pandemic, equivalent to about one-in-25 of the district's population.

The number of cases over the past week has increased to 435 yesterday, compared with 422 on Thursday, 415 on Wednesday, 395 on Tuesday and 410 on Monday.

This gives a current 7-day rate of 305.4 cases per 100,000 of population.

Last Monday, South Kesteven had a 7-day rate of 391.8 cases per 100,000, so the number of fresh cases have dropped by a quarter since then.

The England 7-day average is currently 472.9 cases per 100,000, similar to recent days, but below the 527.4 of early in the week.

The number of deaths today in South Kesteven increased 7 to 165, or 120.8 per 100,000, which means almost one-in-a-800 have died of Covid-19 in the district since the start of the pandemic.

On Friday, 14 deaths were registered in Lincolnshire, two in North East Lincolnshire and one in North Lincolnshire. These figures include deaths both in and out of hospitals, as well as residents in hospitals outside the county.

On Friday, national cases increased by 40,261 to 3,583,907, while deaths rose by 1,401 to 95,981.

In national news, there are no plans to pay everyone in England who tests positive for COVID-19 £500 to self-isolate, No 10 has said.

The PM's official spokesman said there was already a £500 payment available for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate.

The coronavirus R number in the UK has fallen sharply since last week, suggesting the lockdown is slowing the spread of coronavirus.

The R, which refers to the number of people that an infected person will pass COVID-19 on to, is between 0.8 and 1 across the UK, according to the figures released by the Government Office for Science and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).

This means for every 10 people infected with COVID-19, they will pass the virus on to between eight and 10 others.