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Nottingham Post
National
Lorna Hughes

New coronavirus cases recorded across city and four other parts of Nottinghamshire in last 24 hours

A total of nine new coronavirus cases have been recorded over the last 24 hours across Nottingham city and the wider county, according to the latest Public Health England figures.

Cases in the UK have now reached 306,293 - a rise of 670 in the last 24 hours, while the number of deaths recorded is now 46,299 - a rise of 89 in the last 24 hours.

As of 4pm on Tuesday (August 4) there were 1,232 confirmed cases in Nottingham - two more than the previous day.

In the wider county, there are now 3,104 confirmed cases - a rise of seven.

This is the current breakdown of confirmed infections since March for each region of Nottinghamshire:

  • Ashfield 578 (plus one);
  • Bassetlaw 600 (plus three);
  • Broxtowe 436 (no change);
  • Gedling 384 (plus one );
  • Mansfield 356 (no change);
  • Newark and Sherwood 353 (plus two);
  • Rushcliffe 397 (no change).

Elsewhere across the East Midlands, there have been 1,336 confirmed cases in Derby (a rise of four) and 3,458 across Derbyshire (an increase of 12).

Meanwhile, confirmed cases have risen by 26 in Leicester from 5,028 to 5,054 and there are 3,357 across Leicestershire - a rise of 15.

No new deaths have been recorded for trusts operating in Nottinghamshire.

The total number of deaths since the pandemic started is 410.

The number of deaths in Nottinghamshire hospital trusts is as follows:

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital) - 272 (no change)

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - 13 (no change)

Ramsay Health UK - Nottingham Woodthorpe - 1 (no change)

Sherwood Forest Hospitals (Newark Hospital, King's Mill Hospital and Mansfield Community Hospital) - 124 (no change)

The NHS Test and Trace programme needs to be scaled up in order to reopen schools safely, researchers said today.

A new modelling study has implied that reopening schools in September must be combined with a high-coverage test-trace-isolate strategy to avoid a second wave of Covid-19 later this year.

The study comes as Australian research found there were "low" levels of coronavirus transmission in schools and nurseries.

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