LATEST figures confirm the number of new cases of coronavirus recorded in North and East Yorkshire are continuing to rise.

Data from Public Health England shows the total number of cases reported today for our area are:

Ryedale - 161 up one in the last 24 hours (290.7 rate per 100,000 population)

Scarborough - 698 up eight (641.8) 

City of York - 1,161 up 14 (551.2)

North Yorkshire - 3,379 up 48 (546.7)

East Riding of Yorkshire - 1,903 up 15 (557.8)

There has been a total of 409,729 cases of the Covid-19 in the UK, 6,178 in the last 24 hours. There have been 37 deaths

All of these figures include both pillar 1 and pillar 2 cases.