Rutland has this evening reported an increase in confirmed coronavirus cases from 19 to 20.

The official government figures are based on people being tested positive at hospital.

They do not include cases at home or in care homes.

It means that England's smallest county, by far continues to have the smallest number of cases of any UK upper tier health authority.

As regularly reported by Oakham Nub News, they are also based on the residency of the patients, not the location of the hospital they are being treated in.

Meanwhile, three more people have died with coronavirus in Lincolnshire hospitals.

Today's fatalities brings the total to 97 for those dying at the hospitals run by the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.

The trust, which runs Grantham, Boston, Lincoln and Louth hospitals said the patients were all men aged 79, 81 and 91 who had underlying health conditions.

No further deaths were announced at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust.

Its total remains at 61, giving 158 deaths in the wider county.

Nationally, the number of deaths increased by 586 to 21,678.

The number of confirmed cases rose 3,996 to 161,145.

Across the region, the number of cases confirmed at Lincolnshire hospitals increased by 23 to 804.

Leicestershire reported an increase from 858 to 874.

North East Lincolnshire saw an increase of one to 129.

North Lincolnshire reported an increase from 313 to 322.

And Peterborough saw its confirmed case numbers increase from 190 to 216.