MORE than 300 new Covid-19 cases have been recorded across Dorset within the last 24-hour period, according to the latest figures.

The latest Government figures show 302 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the county in the 24 hours leading up to 4pm on Wednesday, September 22.

In the Dorset Council area, 181 new cases were reported. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 24,898 cases confirmed across this area.

Over the latest rolling seven-day period for the Dorset Council area, there have been 952 Covid-19 cases, with a case rate of 250.7 per 100,000 people.

There has been a total of 121 new cases recorded across the BCP Council area, taking the total number of coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic to 44,470.

The rolling seven-day period for the BCP is 898 cases, with a case rate of 226.2 per 100,000 people.

During the course of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been 69,368 cases of Covid-19 confirmed across Dorset.

Elsewhere, the New Forest area recorded 77 new coronavirus cases. The total number of cases since the start of the pandemic stands within the New Forest at 11,876.

The seven-day total for New Forest is 331 with a case rate of 184.2 per 100,000 people.

Across the UK, there has been a total of 34,460 new cases. There have been 7,530,103 confirmed cases recorded in the UK since the start of the pandemic.