Almost 600 new Covid-19 cases were reported across mid-Cheshire in the latest 24-hour period.
Between 4pm on December 2 and 4pm today, a total of 591 people tested positive for coronavirus in Cheshire West and Chester and Cheshire East.
According to figures released by Public Health England, this is made up of 278 new cases in Cheshire West and 313 cases in Cheshire East.
This takes the respective boroughs' totals since the pandemic began to 54,938 in Cheshire West and 58,252 in Cheshire East.
The latest daily update means 1,746 new cases have been recorded in Cheshire West in the last week, giving the borough a seven-day case rate of 507.8 per 100,000 of the population.
In Cheshire East, there have been 1,530 new cases in the last seven days taking the borough's case rate to 395.7 per 100,000.
Nationally, there were 50,584 new Covid cases recorded in the latest 24-hour period.
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