ANOTHER school has reported a Covid-19 case but none have followed Perins School in Alresford and closed completely.

Perins head Steve Jones took the decision yesterday with 50 members of staff and 750 pupils of the 1,150-pupil community, having to self-isolate.

The latest school with a case is St Peter's primary in Winchester.

No new deaths have been reported in the Winchester district although there have been four across the Hampshire County Council area, bringing the total to 823.

The number of coronavirus cases in the Winchester district increased by 29 from 1,511 to 1,540, an infection rate of 1,233.4 per 100,000 since the start of the pandemic in March.

The latest figure for Covid patients at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital is 57 on Monday, down on 63 last Wednesday. Some 43 Covid patients are at the North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke.

The latest available data shows that the infection rate in the Winchester district in the seven days to November 14 is 260 cases or 208.2 in every 100,000 people.

That compares to 171 people in the previous seven day,or a rate of 137.0. It is fifth highest in Hampshire after Portsmouth, Havant, Southampton and Gosport.

‘Winchester district’ comprises more than the city and is the city council area which stretches from Micheldever in the north to Southwick in the south, from Sparsholt in the west to Bramdean in the east.

Another four people are reported to have died of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours across the Hampshire County Council area, according to Government figures released this evening.

The death toll in Hampshire has risen from 819 to 823. Some 279 new cases have been reported in the HCC area, up from 15,151 to 15,430 since the start of the pandemic in March.

Figures published by NHS England show that over the last 24 hours no people have died in the area covered by the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust which includes the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, and only one in both Portsmouth and Southampton.

So far, at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which includes the RHCH in Winchester, there have been 193 recorded deaths; 224 people have died at University Hospital Southampton whilst at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust the toll now stands at 266.

Since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 704 deaths across Hampshire.

Comparison of the number of new cases has proved impossible in recent days after a change in the way the statistics are gathered.

Public Health England says it has updated the way it records the location of people who have been tested for Covid-19 meaning counts of cases and deaths have been altered.

And often the numbers released by the NHS do not match the daily numbers issued by Public Health England and local government.

The number of reported deaths in the Winchester district has stayed at 90 today. Other areas: Portsmouth: 92, same; Southampton: 132, same and Hampshire 823 (including Winchester), up four.

The numbers of Covid sufferers being admitted to hospital has not been updated today.

There were 130 on Sunday up from 97 on Friday, in hospitals across the south-east region. Today there are 1,071 patients in south-east hospitals, up from 1,041 on Sunday. Eighty-eight are on ventilators, up five on Sunday.

The latest figure for Covid patients at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital is 57 on Monday down on 63 last Wednesday. Some 43 Covid patients are at the North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke.

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