Cornwall has had just 24 new positive cases of coronavirus recorded in the past week.
The latest lab-confirmed case counts and rates published by the Government on Friday evening show that with an infection rate of 97.9 per 100,000 people, Cornwall is the local authority with the 14th lowest number of cases per head of population.
The county has a slightly higher infection rate than its neighbouring West Devon with 95.4 cases per 100,000 people and North Devon with 93.6. West Devon has no recorded positive cases for the past eight days.
The county of Rutland and the City of London, an administrtaive region covering the Square Mile and populated by just 9,000 people, are the places in the country with the lowest infection rates overall.
At the other end of the scale is Barrow-in-Furness, where there is an infection rate of 823.7 per 100,000 people, and Lancaster, where the rate stands at 540 per 100,000.
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.
By Local Democracy Reporter Daniel Clark