HARLOW has seen another large drop in it is infection rate.

The figure for January 22nd is 597.2 per 100,000.

That is a drop of 29.5% on seven days previously.

That is another large drop and the fourteenth day in a row we have seen a fall.

What should be seen as reassuring for Harlow residents is how consistent the fall is.

Today it is decline of 24.

In the previous seven days, the number of cases in Harlow has declined by: 21, 50, 27, 33, 26, 20, 53 and 20.

We think everyone could put up with this boring consistency.

The total number of cases is 520.

That is a fall of 804 cases since the “peak” on January 9th

This is the lowest rate since December 21stwhen Harlow had 572 cases.

Harlow is now 21st out of 315 local authorities.

It is the highest in Essex however, as you can see below, many other areas in Essex and on our border seem to have made much faster progress in the decline of their infection rates.

Remember this refers to January 22nd but published on January 27th.

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”.

Yes, this is still good news but no-one should be under any illusion that we are in for a long haul. At this rate, it is going to take some time to get the rate down below 100 per 100,000.

If this is a “constant” decline then that could be the end of February.

YH understands that there are 127 Covid in-patients, including 12 on ventilators.

There are 98 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

https://coronavstats.co.uk

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 and Decrease

Dec 16th: 506

Dec 20th: 726

Dec 27th: 984

Dec 31st: 1123

Jan 4th: 1327

Jan 10th: 1078

Jan 13th: 810

Jan 16th: 717

Jan 20th: 594

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:

Broxbourne:

Havering :

Southend:

Braintree:

Basildon:

Chelmsford:

Epping Forest:

Brentwood:

Local Authorities

England local authorities by highest number of COVID-19 positives per 100k population.

Seven–day rolling rate by specimen date – ending Jan 22nd