It's the end of the week, so it's time to look back at the last seven days of new coronavirus cases across Devon and Cornwall - and again the figures are very encouraging with another decrease in confirmed cases

Two weeks ago there were 71 new cases confirmed across the two counties. This time last week, 44 new cases were confirmed in the previous seven days. Today, that figure has dropped to just 13

West Devon has now gone 21 days without a new case being confirmed, while Torbay has not seen a new case for 14 days. East Devon for nine days, while Torridge and Teignbridge are without a new confirmed case in eight days

Exeter has seen just one new cases in the last week, as has North Devon, with two new cases in Mid Devon. Plymouth has seen four new cases and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly six. South Hams today saw its first new case for 12 days

Torridge remains the district in England with the lowest positive case infection rate with the South Hams, West Devon and East Devon also in the bottom ten, with North Devon 11th, and Cornwall 13th, Teignbridge in 17th, Mid Devon 20th, Exeter 29th, Plymouth 34th and Torbay 63rd

Across the entire region, numbers of new cases being confirmed are dropping significant and has switched to the stage where it's a story if there is a new case in one of the district, rather than if there isn't. Areas of Devon have not seen any new cases for more than a week

It's now three weeks since VE Day and the unofficial easing of lockdown - given what we know about the length of time with symptoms to develop, unless there is a significant backlog in the data (which I don't think there is), VE Day has not caused any spike in infections in Devon

It's now more than two weeks since lockdown measures were eased by the Government and with symptoms taking roughly seven days to show, you'd expect to begin to see an increase in infections around now if there was an immediate rise in them, but there isn't any rise yet

Not to say that there won't be a rise and that easing of lockdown won't see infections rise, but there's nothing showing up in the daily positive cases. If coronavirus was spreading as a result of it, you'd expect to see cases rise over the next week, but they haven't yet

It was nine days ago that saw stories of beaches being packed and ticket wardens running out of tickets - data relating to any, if there were any, infections that those actions of people caused probably won't have shown up yet, but probably should begin to by next Friday

As the data is collected by the home postcode of where the person who tests positive resides, holidaymakers testing positive in the region won't show up in Devon's figures, but no signs yet, and I stress yet, they've brought the virus with them and given it to locals

But at the end of another week, the trend again is very positive (and another day today with no hospital deaths). New positive cases are less than a third of what they were last week and a sixth of what they were two weeks ago. That can only be seen as good news.

Obviously usual caveats apply about this only be based on positive tests, but that's the best measure we have really, and while there may be some new positives, if there are then they haven't either reached PHE or were not in time (by 12.30am) to be added to today's figures

And just for Friday - the region saw positive cases drop by one. A new case confirmed in the South Hams, but historical duplicate cases in East Devon and Exeter were removed.

Just 13 coronavirus cases confirmed in a week in Devon and Cornwall https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/just-13-coronavirus-cases-confirmed-4177081