LATEST figures show how coronavirus is affecting each age group in Herefordshire.

Public health statistics released by the government show the rate of people with at least one positive Covid-19 test result per 100,000 population in a seven-day period.

The data shows the over 90s group still has the highest infection rate, as it did on February 1.

The case rates are taken for two dates – March 1, some of the latest information available, and a month previous on February 1.

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The difference in the data shows how the rates have been falling over the last four weeks.

The worst affected age group is those over-90. The infection rate has fallen to 168.6 from 379.4, but still remains the highest of all groups.

The 85 to 89, 35 to 39, and 25 to 29 age groups also have rates above 80 cases per 100,000 people, but all have fallen over the last month.

Speaking in January, Herefordshire's acting director of public health Rebecca Howell-Jones said the high rates among the over-90s was due to care home outbreaks.

At the time she didn't comment on how many cases there had been, or at which care homes.

Anyone with symptoms is urged by the government, NHS and council to book a test online. Centres remain open at Hereford's Merton Meadow car park, Bridge Street in Leominster and at the Wilton Road car park in Ross-on-Wye.