There have been less than 20 new positive coronavirus test results in the county, the latest government statistics show.
NHS data shows 18 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours of recorded data.
Five of these positive test results were recorded in North Somerset, while four were recorded in South Somerset.
Bath and North East Somerset have recorded three cases and Mendip and Sedgemoor have reported two each.
No other deaths have been recorded in Somerset after contracting coronavirus in the past 28 days.
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Breakdown of positive test results
The number of positive test results in each area since the start of the pandemic is shown below, with the new positive test results in parentheses.
Bath and North East Somerset: 8,183 (three new cases)
Mendip: 3425 (two new cases)
North Somerset: 9,993 (five new cases)
Sedgemoor: 5,318 (two new cases)
Somerset West and Taunton: 5,933 (two new cases)
South Somerset: 5,412 (four new cases)
The government said 23 more people died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, bringing the UK total to 127,123.
Separate figures released by UK statistical agencies show that there are now 151,000 registered deaths in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
The government also said as of 9 a.m. on Tuesday there had been 2,472 other laboratory-confirmed cases in the UK.
This brings the total to 4,375,814.
Death within 28 days of a positive test result for each region of Somerset
The number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test result in each area since the start of the pandemic is recorded below, with new deaths in parentheses. Figures may be revised at a later date as statistics are adjusted
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Source: www.somersetlive.co.uk
This notice was published: 2021-04-13 17:50:23
