ONLY 14 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the last three days across the whole City of York Council area.

Public Health England said today there had been a total of 12,190 Covid cases since the pandemic began - eleven more than yesterday.

Only three new cases were confirmed yesterday and there were no new cases confirmed on Saturday.

York's rolling seven day rate in the week to March 24 was 29.4 cases per 100,000 population.

The rate in the North Yorkshire County Council area was 42.7 per 100,000 and in the East Riding of Yorkshire Council area the figure was 66.8.

Meanwhile, York and Scarborough hospitals have now gone nine days without a Covid-related death.

NHS England said today that the total number of such deaths at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust hospitals remained at 583.

The trust said that it currently had 35 Covid patients at its two hospitals, four of whom were in intensive care.

It had also now discharged a total of 2,106 Covid patients since the start of the pandemic, or was no longer treating them as Covid.