Covid-19: Harlow falls to 131st in infection table

Health / Sun 14th Feb 2021 at 06:59pm

HARLOW has fallen to its lowest place in the infection table since late November.

Harlow is now 131st out of 315 local authorities.

There are now 147 cases in Harlow. A decrease of 11 on the previous day.

That figure relates to Feb 9th but reported on Feb 14th.

The infection rate has fallen to 168.8 per 100,000.

This could be quite a significant weekend in Harlow’s battle against Covid.

If we can stress the positive, the number of in-patients at Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) has fallen very steadily.

YH understands that there are 60 Covid in-patients, including 10 on ventilators.

There are 167 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

Jan 25th: 402

Jan 30th: 284

Feb 5th: 199

Feb 8th: 158

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.

Broxbourne: 109th–184

Havering : 132nd–456

Southend: 139th–316

Braintree: 175th–235

Thurrock: 179th–268

Chelmsford: 197th–252

Basildon: 218th–248

Epping Forest: 244th–154