FEWER than 30 cases of coronavirus have been recorded across Dorset in the last 24 hours.

Government figures reveal that 29 new cases have been recorded across the county before 4.00pm on Sunday March 28.

The BCP Council area recorded six new cases, taking the area's total to 25,095 since the start of the pandemic.

In the seven days leading up to March 23, the latest rolling seven-day period, 75 cases were confirmed in BCP, giving a rolling infection rate of 19 per 100,000 people.

The Dorset Council area recorded 17 new cases, taking the total to 11,715.

The rolling rate for the local authority area stood at 29.3 per 100,000 after 111 cases were confirmed over the last week.

Elsewhere, six cases were confirmed in the New Forest, taking the total to 6,084.

The rolling rate was 22.2 per 100,000 after 40 cases were confirmed in the week preceding March 23.

On Saturday March 27, the BCP, Dorset and New Forest council districts recorded eight, 13 and six new cases respectively.

Across the whole of the UK, 3,862 new cases of the Covid-19 virus were recorded taking the total number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic to 4,333,042.