The South Hams has gone a week without a recorded case of coronavirus, latest figures show.

The data is positive for the wider region too, with no new coronavirus cases having been recorded across Devon and Cornwall for two successive days.

It is the first time since March 12 that two days in a row have passed without a new case being recorded across the two counties.

In the Devon County Council area, only three new cases have been recorded in the last week, all of which were in Exeter.

East Devon, Mid Devon, North Devon, Teignbridge, Torridge and West Devon have all also gone more than a week since their last case, with Teignbridge having gone more than two weeks, North Devon and Torridge three weeks, and West Devon more than five weeks.

Torbay has seen just one new case in the last week, with five in Plymouth (although none in the last three days), and nine across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

In total, the South Hams has seen just 82 confirmed cases.

The figures come from the Government coronavirus data dashboard which is updated daily at https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/#category=ltlas&map=rate

The COVID-19 cases are identified by taking specimens from people and sending these specimens to laboratories around the UK to be tested. If the test is positive, this is a referred to as a lab-confirmed case.

Confirmed positive cases are matched to ONS geographical area codes using the home postcode of the person tested.

The data is now shown by the date the specimen was taken from the person being tested and while it gives a useful analysis of the progression of cases over time, it does mean that the latest days’ figures may be incomplete.

Cases received from laboratories by 12:30am are included in the counts published that day. While there may have been new cases of coronavirus confirmed or people having tested positive, those test results either yet to reach PHE for adding to the dataset or were not received in time for the latest daily figures to be published.