Covid-19: Harlow’s infection rate drops by over 32% for second day in a row
News / Mon 18th Jan 2021 at 05:42pm
HARLOW has seen another large drop in it is infection rate.
The figure for January 12th is 930.3 per 100,000.
That is a drop of 32.8% on seven days previously.
The total number of cases is 810. That is also a fall of 51.
That is a fall of 517 cases since the “peak” on January 9th
This is the lowest rate since December 25th.
Harlow has fallen to tenth in the table of 315 local authorities.
It is still the highest in Essex but it is starting to decline as fast as other areas such as Epping and Broxbourne.
Remember this refers to January 13th but published on January 18th.
This still continues to confirm that we are in a very difficult January and underline why the authorities have declared that the whole county has to be treated as the scene of a “major incident”.
YH understands that there are 131 Covid in-patients, including 11 on ventilators.
There are 89 outstanding test results.
There are now 10 Covid wards at PAH. Lister, Locke, Penn, Harold, Kingsmoor, Charnley, John Snow, Henry Moore and ITU.
Reference point
Plus Twitter account @RP131
If you are interested in flu rates etc then we can signpost you to the Twitter account of @jburnmurdoch who will in turn explain Public Health data.
Increase
Dec 16th: 581.2
Dec 21st: 933.8
Dec 25th: 939.5
Dec 29th: 1188.7
Jan 4th: 1524.1
On November 19th it was 251st out of 315 local authorities. Then the rate started to rise and it climbed up the chart. By November 30th, it was in 53rd place.
The infection rate tells a similar story. Back on September 30th it was 29.9. October 16th: 68.9. November 8th: 118.3. November 22nd it was 206.7. December 2nd it was 221.7.
For further reference, may we signpost is channel which has, to date, over 1000 Covid-related news items on channel since March. Go to our Covid-19 report on December 12th for a fuller explanation of the statistics.
https://www.yourharlow.com/category/health-and-well-being/covid-19/
Look at the percentage increase of the areas close to Harlow.
Other areas
It is worth observing how many areas near us have seen a decline in infections and have dropped down the table.
Thurrock: 6th: 1060.6
Broxbourne: 33rd: 899.5
Basildon: 34th: 1077.5
Havering : 42nd: 844.5
Epping Forest: 47th: 801.9
Braintree: 51st: 787.7
Chelmsford: 59th: 708.1
Southend: 58th: 723.0
Brentwood: 106th: 570.0
Local Authorities
England local authorities by highest number of COVID-19 positives per 100k population.
Seven–day rolling rate by specimen date – ending Jan 13th.
Ian Cox
2021-01-19 19:41:50
The problem with headlines like that is that encourages the Covidiots to think that it's OK to go out and mingle. Whilst it's true that the rate of new infections is falling, hospital admissions and deaths are going through the roof.
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