Rutland has again recorded just one case of Covid-19 today and again no deaths.

This compares with one case yesterday two last Friday and no cases on the Friday before.

The grand total number of cases since the pandemic is 1671- about one in 25 of Rutland's population.

The district has now recorded 10 cases in the week to today and 11 in the week to yesterday, and 10 in the week to last Friday.

The 7-day infection rate is 25 cases per 100,000, down slightly on the 27.6 of yesterday and the same as the 25 last Friday. This is slightly higher than the England average of 21.4.

However, this is well down on the peak earlier this year, which reached into the 400s for cases per 100,000 of population.

The number of deaths remains at 62, which amounts to about one fatality in 700 residents, which compares to the England average of one-in-500. The last death was recorded last Wednesday, the only death with Covid-19 during April.

South Kesteven has now gone more than 3 weeks without a fatality as the UK recorded just 15 deaths today.

However, the district recorded 7 cases today, which compares with 6 last Friday and 6 the previous Thursday. Overall 35 cases have been reported in the past week.

This gives South Kesteven a 7-day infection rate of 24.6 cases per 100,000, which is just above the England average of 21.4.

This is an increase on the 13.3 cases per 100,000 recorded last Friday but better than the 26.7 recorded yesterday.

Either way, the latest figures remain among the lowest since last year and around a twentieth of figures earlier in the year when the weekly rate exceeded 400 cases per 100,000.

Overall, South Kesteven has seen 7582 recorded cases since the start of the pandemic- which is about one for every 20 residents.

The number of deaths has remained at 266 for more than 3 weeks. This means that around one-in-600 residents have died within 28 days of a positive test since the pandemic started, which compares with an England average of one-in-500.

In total, there have been 248 coronavirus cases in Greater Lincolnshire and three COVID-related deaths so far this week – a 7% drop in cases but two more deaths than the previous week.

The government's COVID-19 dashboard on Friday recorded 35 new cases in Lincolnshire, four in North Lincolnshire and four in North East Lincolnshire.

One death was registered 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 2,490 to 4,431,043, while deaths rose by 15 to 127,598.

In national news, England's R number has fallen slightly to between 0.8 and 1, latest figures show.

This means that on average, every 10 people infected with COVID-19 will pass it on to between eight and 10 other people.

The Prime Minister has said the government needs to carefully handle outbreaks of the India variant of coronavirus in the UK.