HOUNSLOW Borough has seen a decrease in the number of new coronavirus cases following last week's increase.

Specifically, there was a decrease of over 2% of new cases in the latest COVID-19 figures that were released.

In the week of June 14 to 20, Hounslow Borough saw 219 new positive cases, compared to 225 the week before.

That figure represents a decrease of 2.7%, with six fewer new cases.

That means there was also a decrease in the number of new cases per 100,000 residents, with 80.9, compared to 83.1 the week before.

Those figures are now lower than the average across both London and England.

London as a whole had 7,629 new cases during the week of June 14 to 20, which represents 85.1 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

England saw 59,188 new cases during the same week, correlating to 105.2 cases per 100,000 people.