THIS is our daily Covid report for Harlow. This includes the figures for Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH). The table of 315 local authorities in England and the breakdown of cases for eleven areas of Harlow.

Finally, we also have the weekly number of people vaccinated in Harlow.

We have a dedicated Covid-19 channel which has over 1200 stories.

https://www.yourharlow.com/category/health-and-well-being/covid-19/

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Princess Alexandra Hospital

There has been no further deaths registered at PAH in Harlow.

The number of deaths remains at 534.

There have been 8 deaths in March.

One death in last eleven days.

There were 38 deaths in February.

That compares with 170 deaths in January.

There are 10 Covid in-patients including 1 on a ventilator.

There are 235 outstanding test results.

Back on January 4th, there was 204 Covid in patients.

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Local Authority Table

The number of cases has increased by one to 43.

This means there are 49.4 cases per 100,000. This is an increase of 2.5% from seven days ago.

Harlow hit 49 on March 14th and seems to be stuck in the 40s. You do start to wonder if it will simply be in the 40s for quite a period of time to come. If so, what do the authorities do?

The situation could be down to more testing as a number of school pupils have been reported as testing positive.

That is still the lowest rate since October 8th, 2020.

This figure relates to March 23rd and reported on March 28th.

Harlow is 130th out of 315 local authorities.

It is the second highest in Essex. The lowest is Maldon at 305th

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The Harlow Breakdown

THE INFECTION rate has gone down in two out of eleven areas of Harlow.

It went up in four and stayed the same in five.

The lowest areas are Bush Fair, Great Parndon and Netteswell with zero.

The highest area is Old Harlow and Newhall with 9.

March 23rd

March 22nd

Areas bordering Harlow

Sawbridgeworth: 5

Much Hadham and Hunsdon: 0

Hatfield Heath, Hallingburys and Rodings: 0

North Weald, Matching and Sheering: 4

Roydon, Lower Nazeing and Epping: 3

The areas are geographic clusters of 7,500 people. More associated with relationship with surgeries.

Reference: Twitter @RP131

https://coviddatashare.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/MSOA_LA_20210328.html

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Vaccinations

Number of people vaccinated with at least one dose

Week Ending: March 25th

The statistics are as follows:

Under 50: 8,217

Aged 50-54: 3,239

Aged 55-59: 3,770

Aged 60-64: 4,180

Aged 65-69: 3,669

Aged 70-74: 3,256

Aged 75-79: 2,326

Aged 80+ 3,596

Total: 32,253

A total of 3,338 in the past week. That is an average of 476 a day.