ONE hundred new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Swindon.

Public Health England figures show that 8,318 people had been confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19 by 9am on Friday in the borough, up from 8,218 the same time on Thursday.

The seven-day rolling infection rate as of January 10 is 451 cases per 100,000 population.

Across the UK, the number of recorded cases increased by 55,761 over the period, to 3,316,019.