Rutland has again recorded no cases and no deaths of Covid-19 today.

This is at least the third time over the past 2 weeks this has happened in the county.

However, due to how the figures are calculated, revisions mean there has been a slight increase in the number of cases recorded over the past week.

They have increased from 6 in the week to Monday, to 8 in the week to Wednesday and 10 in the week to today.

The 7-day case rate for Rutland is now 25 cases per 100,000, which compares with the England average of 25.2.

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 61, as it has for nearly 5 weeks.

The Rutland total figure amounts to about one fatality for every 700 residents, which, which compares with an England average of one-in-500.

Meanwhile, a further plunge in South Kesteven's 7-day infection rate has been confirmed by official government figures today.

Seven cases were recorded today but the total over the past week is just 27, compared with 53 in the week to last Tuesday and 65 in the week to the Tuesday before that.

This gives South Kesteven a 7-day infection rate of 19 cases per 100,000, compared with an England average of 25.2, which has risen slightly today amid a general increase of testing.

This is the lowest since last year and less than a tenth of figures earlier in the year when at times it exceeded 400 cases per 100,000.

Overall, South Kesteven has seen 7529 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 almost three 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.

Overall, there have been 60 new coronavirus cases and one COVID-related death in Greater Lincolnshire on Tuesday – up from 35 cases and no deaths this time last week.

The government's COVID-19 dashboard recorded 40 new cases in Lincolnshire, 17 in North Lincolnshire and three in North East Lincolnshire.

On Tuesday, one death was registered in North Lincolnshire, none in North East Lincolnshire but -3 in Lincolnshire. Fluctuations in data are usually due to some deaths in those areas being reallocated to other regions across the UK or a miscount. These figures include deaths both in and out of hospitals, as well as residents in hospitals outside the county.

On Tuesday, national cases increased by 2,685 to 4,409,631, while deaths rose by 17 to 127,451.

In national news, medical supplies from the UK arrived in India on Tuesday – the first international shipment aimed at stemming a devastating COVID-19 surge.

Ventilators and oxygen equipment landed in Delhi, but far more will be needed, with many hospitals overwhelmed and people waiting in the streets outside.

All 85,000-plus COVID fines issued in England during the pandemic should be reviewed, MPs and peers have said, after more than a quarter of prosecutions in the first two months of the year for breaching the regulations were shown to have been wrongly brought.

The joint committee on human rights said coronavirus regulations, which have been changed at least 65 times since March last year, were muddled, discriminatory and unfair.