Nearly 2,000 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the last seven days across Devon and Cornwall.

The total confirmed number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic has shot up to 12,001 across the two counties, as of Friday, November 6.

Government statistics show that 1,946 new cases have been confirmed across the region in the past seven days, compared to the 1,662 cases last week.

The latest MSOA cluster maps show the number of people who have tested positive, broken down into areas of East Devon from the period between October 26 and November 1. They are as follows:

- Exmouth Brixington: 15

- Exmouth Withycombe Raleigh: 12

- Exmouth Halsdon: 9

- Exmouth Town: 8

- Exmouth Littleham: 7

- Budleigh Salterton: 4

- Sidmouth Town: 9

- Sidmouth Sidford: 0

- Sidbury, Offwell & Beer: 4

- Ottery St Mary & West Hill: 4

- Newton Poppleford, Otterton & Woodbury: 8

- Cranbrook, Broadclyst & Stoke Canon: 21

- Clyst, Exton & Lympstone: 17

- Feniton & Whimple: 7

- Honiton South & West: 4

- Honiton North & East: 3

- Axminster: 4

- Seaton: 4

- Kilmington, Colyton & Uplyme: 7

- Dunkesewell, Upottery & Stockland: 4

The worst affected areas are North Devon, where cases have nearly doubled, and in East Devon and Torbay, where cases have more than doubled.

Exeter saw the exact same number of new cases as it did the previous week.

This is the breakdown of the 1,946 new cases confirmed since October 30 compared with the 1,662 cases last week (October 24 - 30):

- 207 up from 124 in East Devon

- 73 up from 52 in Mid Devon

- 113 up from 63 in North Devon

- 51 up from 38 in West Devon

- 196 stayed the same in Exeter

- 427 up from 426 in Plymouth

- 103 down from 117 in Teignbridge

- 305 up from 213 in Torbay

- 41 up from 35 in Torridge

- 79 up from 76 in South Hams

- 341 up from 311 in Cornwall

Maps by specimen date show cases are rising in East Devon, Mid Devon, North Devon, Torbay, Torridge and West Devon, while are trending fairly flat for Cornwall and Exeter, while Teignbridge and Plymouth are seeing slight falls.

The number of people in hospital in the South West has risen to 514 from 386 as of last week and there are currently 67 people on a mechanical ventilator.

Across Devon and Cornwall, those in hospital following a positive COVID-19 test has risen by 50 per cent in the last week.

The NHS England figures, released yesterday (Friday), give the latest details of the admissions and diagnoses of coronavirus patients by hospital trust.

It shows that as of Tuesday, November 3, there were 156 people in Devon's hospitals and six in Cornwall. This compares to 99 and four the week before.

Here is the breakdown of the 156 patients.

- 38 in Torbay Hospital, up from 33

- 38 in Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital up from 23

- 16 in North Devon District Hospital up from 11

- 64 in Derriford Hospital in Plymouth up from 32

- 6 at the Royal Cornwall Hospital up from 4

And the numbers of patients in Mechanical Ventilation beds has doubled in the last seven days to 18 patients from nine.

The breakdown is as follows:

- 1 in Torbay Hospital and the RD&E

- 2 in the Royal Cornwall  Hospital

- 6 in Derriford Hospital

- 8 in North Devon District Hospital

In the last seven days, nine people have died in hospitals in Devon following a positive COVID-19 test, with one in Exeter, three in Torbay, and five in Plymouth.

But NHS 111 data for Devon and Cornwall is down slightly based on last Friday, and the R Rate for the South West has fallen from 1.2-1.5 to 1.2-1.4,

Here' is a breakdown of the number of people who tested positive:

- 913 in East Devon

- 2,086 in Exeter

- 271 in West Devon

- 429 in South Hams

- 478 in North Devon

- 492 in Mid Devon

- 727 in Teignbridge

- 1,260 in Torbay

- 211 in Torridge

- 2,490 in Plymouth

- 2,644 in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

It comes as Devon's Director of Public Health, Dr Virginia Pearson, has made an appeal for one more effort and urging everyone to 'act now to stop the virus in its tracks' and help prevent local health services from being overwhelmed this winter.

She said: "Local people and businesses made huge sacrifices during the first lockdown and this really helped to keep the number of COVID-19 cases and related deaths down in the county.

"We now need to come together again with one more big effort to help stop the second wave of the virus in its tracks. So please, keep alert to risk at all times. Follow the rules, use common sense and keep yourself and your family safe by not dropping your guard."

Confirmed positive cases are matched to ONS geographical area codes using the home postcode of the person tested.

Cases received from laboratories by 12:30am are included in the counts published that day.

While there may have been new cases of coronavirus confirmed or people having tested positive, those test results either yet to reach PHE for adding to the dataset or were not received in time for the latest daily figures to be published.