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

It comes in a week when the county has recorded ten cases, according to official government figures, compared with 7 in the week before that and 9 in the week before that.

Since the start of the month, Rutland has recorded 38 cases, well down on March.

The grand total number of cases since the pandemic is 1662- about one in 25 of Rutland's population.

The 7-day case rate for Rutland is now 25 cases per 100,000, which compares with the England average of 23.9.

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

At the start of April, Rutland's 7-day case rate was 60.1.

The number of deaths remains at 62, amounts to about one fatality in 700 residents, which compares to the England average of one-in-500. There has been just one death this month.

Meanwhile, in Lincolnshire, South Kesteven has recorded just 19 cases of Covid-19 in the past week.

This compares with 48 in the week to last Friday, 83 in the week to the the Friday before and 158 in 7 days before that.

This gives South Kesteven a 7-day infection rate of 13.3 cases per 100,000, which is little more than half the England average of 23.9.

At the start of April, the 7-day rate for South Kesteven was approximately ten times more at 120.8 cases per 100,000, or 125.7 four weeks ago.

Today's figures are 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 7546 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 about 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, April has seen 1,633 COVID-19 cases for the entire month in Greater Lincolnshire — down 63% on March's figure of 4,493.

The county's death rate has also sharply plummeted from 100 in March to 14 this month — a drop of 86%.

So far this week, there have been 266 coronavirus cases in Greater Lincolnshire and one COVID-related deaths  – compared to 251 cases and five the previous week.

The government's COVID-19 dashboard on Friday recorded 37 new cases in Lincolnshire, seven in North Lincolnshire and one in North East Lincolnshire.

On April 30, one death was taken off the register in North Lincolnshire. These figures include deaths both in and out of hospitals, as well as residents in hospitals outside the county. Fluctuations in data can occur for a variety of reasons including corrected data, misdiagnoses or wrong addresses.

On Friday, national cases increased by 2,381 to 4,416,623, while deaths rose by 15 to 127,517.

People aged 40 and over are now being invited to book a COVID-19 vaccination as the NHS programme continues to expand.

Nationally, the coronavirus reproduction number, or R value, in England has increased to an estimated 0.8 and 1.1. It means that on average, every 10 people infected will infect between 8 and 11 other people.

An Office for National Statistics survey has suggested that only about 0.1% of the population in the UK – around 1-in-1000 – was infected with coronavirus during the week up to 24 April. Around the same level as late summer 2020. At January's peak it was almost 2%.

World Health Organisation bosses, however, have told Sky News , that the pandemic is "nowhere near over".

DATA SOURCE — FIGURES CORRECT AT THE TIME OF THE LATEST UPDATE. POSTCODE DATA INCLUDES DEATHS NOT IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES OR IN HOSPITALS OUTSIDE AUTHORITY BOUNDARIES.