More than 200 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the district.

Data released by Public Health England shows there have been 202 positive Covid-19 tests carried out on residents.

Across the whole of the county, 3,505 cases of the virus have been confirmed, with 2,874 of those in the Essex County Council area.

In neighbouring Chelmsford, 354 positive tests have been carried out and 339 cases have been confirmed in Colchester.

Meanwhile the total number of cases in the UK stands at 219,183.

The figures are correct as of 4.26pm yesterday (Sunday, May 10).

The data comes after John Edmunds, professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the Commons Science and Technology Committee last week that about 20,000 people a day are still becoming infected with coronavirus - a figure that UK national statistician Professor Sir Ian Diamond agreed with.

Sir Ian told a Downing Street press conference: "Professor Edmunds is right that R has probably gone up a little bit from his last estimate and that is driven by the epidemic in care homes, and I would not divert from that.

"That gives us a real challenge to reduce the epidemic in care homes and it's one that I think, over the next few weeks, from what I've seen, will happen."

"If 'R' now increasing because of social care surely exposes govt failures to implement infection control in social care."