No details are being released about the location of Cornwall’s three positive coronavirus cases - but the county’s deputy director of Public Health says that the risk to the general public remains low.

Cornwall Council confirmed the third case of the virus yesterday and did not say whether it was directly related to the initial two patients, who had returned from Italy.

Steve Brown, Cornwall Council’s deputy director of Public Health said: ’I can confirm that a third case of COVID-19 has been recorded in Cornwall.

’I’d like once again to reassure people again that the risk to the general public remains low and Cornwall Council is working with health colleagues to do everything we can to stop the virus spreading and ensure the people of Cornwall are protected.

’If you have not been contacted by Public Health England as a close contact of the confirmed cases you do not need to take any action at this time.’