CORONAVIRUS cases are continuing to surge in Oxford, with another 16 cases in a day.

There are early indications the city rise may be slowing, however, as the daily increase has dropped below 20 for the first time in several days.

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According to Public Health England, as of 9am, these are the number of new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours;

  • Oxford - 16
  • Oxfordshire - 51
  • UK - 14,542

The total coronavirus cases since the pandemic started;

  • Oxford - 1,381
  • Oxfordshire - 4,370
  • UK - 530,113

These figures are cumulative and include patients who are currently unwell, have recovered and those that have died.

The weekly rolling infection rate for Oxford is 95.1 cases per 100,000 people based on 145 cases in the seven days to Saturday. This is up from a rate 61.7 from 94 cases the week before.

The current weekly rate is much higher than previously thought due to a IT error discovered on Friday.

It meant almost 16,000 positive tests were not included in daily figures or passed on to contact tracing.

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Also announced was a further 76 people who have died within 28 days of a had a positive test result.

It takes the confirmed UK death toll to 42,445.

Across the South East, 18 people with the virus were admitted to hospital.

This takes the total to 117, of which 11 are in serious enough condition to need be on a ventilator.