Latest Government figures for the past week have highlighted two ‘clusters’ of COVID-19 cases in South East Cornwall in addition to the Pilgrims Pride food factory outbreak in West Cornwall revealed a few days ago – though overall the number of cases in the county is falling.
A ‘cluster’ is identified as with three or more positive cases of the virus in a specific locality of 7,500 people and the latest data refers to cases recorded between September 22 and 28.
One of the South East Cornwall clusters emerged in the figures from last week and refers to there being 16 recorded cases of the virus in the area of Kingsand, Antony and Maryfield on the Rame Peninsula.
The other cluster, however, is new in the latest figures and indicates that nine cases of COVID-19 have now been recorded in the area of Lanreath, Pelynt and Polruan.
Other clusters in Mid Cornwall in the latest figures include four cases in Bodmin West, and 11 cases in the area of Roche and Goss Moor.
Across the Tamar in Devon the number of cases in Plymouth has been falling but in Exeter 78 new cases were recorded in the latest seven-day period, meaning the rise in cases there has for the first time been above the national average.