The Ormskirk & Southport NHS Trust Hospitals reported 19 new coronavirus infections today. There have now been 927 infections, that’s 811 per 100,000 of the population.
No deaths from coronavirus were reported in the county, but there have been 282 new cases of coronavirus infections confirmed in Lancashire in the last 24 hours, according to new data from Public Health England. The R number, representing the number of people an infected person will pass the virus to, has risen to between 1.1 and 1.4, meaning cases could rise very quickly.
