A new case of Covid has been confirmed - but the island still has no cases in the community.

It involves a patient transfer case who was already self-isolating, having recently returned to the island after attending a medical appointment in the UK.

The case was detected through a screening test on admission to Noble’s Hospital for a separate, unrelated condition.

Contact tracing is under way.

This brings the total active cases to nine, and takes the tally since the outbreak began to 357.

A total of 16,463 tests have been carried out of which five are awaiting results. A further nine are awaiting a test.