'It's a good news story that over 90s are more likely to test positive', explains Devon's public health boss
Devon's public health boss has been explaining why the over 90s are among the most likely to test positive for coronavirus in the county.
Steve Brown, public health director designate, said: "The majority of them will be care home residents.
"With care homes we introduced a testing regime so every week staff are tested whether they have symptoms or not.
"Every month, so every 28 days, all residents in care homes are also tested whether they have symptoms or not.
That picks up positive cases so in some respects it's a good news story for the testing regime.
"if the older group are not or have no symptoms - are asymptomatic - that's another good thing as well because that generally means they're not going to be unwell.
"Illness is going to be low and hopefully not going to see such a big number of mortality or deaths so that accounts for the vast majority of the over 90s as you can imagine."