Coronavirus: Two positive tests listed for Peterborough as UK death toll tops 100

A fortnight ago the Peterborough Telegraph reported how PHE had revealed that a resident in the city had been confirmed as having Covid-19, only to late clarify that a resident from the area had contracted the virus elsewhere.

Despite this, Peterborough was listed as having a positive case for the next 10 days, only for the city to disappear off the PHE map earlier this week.

But the latest published figures state that Peterborough has now had two residents diagnosed with the virus.

It is not known if the two positive tests include the person from the city who contracted it elsewhere.

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The PT asked Public Health England for an explanation on its figures earlier today (Wednesday) when Peterborough was listed as having no confirmed cases.

A spokeswoman for PHE said: “The figures should be treated as a guide. Since they are published on a daily basis, they are subject to data cleansing and as such they can fluctuate between local authority areas.

“What’s more, the figures do not give a true indication of how many cases there are in localities now that testing has changed - now we have moved to the delay phase we are mainly testing in hospitals rather than testing all suspected cases in communities.”

The death toll in the UK has now reached 104.

There have been 14 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Cambridgeshire and 15 in Northamptonshire, as well as seven in Lincolnshire.

However, it is believed that thousands of people across the country have Covid-19 but have not been tested for it, with anyone having the symptoms being told to self-isolate for two weeks without knowing if they have the virus or not.

Currently, the UK is testing 4,000 people a day but this is due to be ramped up and eventually reach 25,000 a day.

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