HARLOW registered 1192 cases on January 1st.

That is an increase of 69 cases on December 30th.

This places Harlow 8th out of 315 local authorities in England.

This was an increase of 44.1% on seven days ago.

This continues to confirm that we may be in a for 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 191 Covid in-patients, including 16 on ventilators.

There are 103 outstanding test results.

There are now 10 Covid wards at PAH. Lister, Locke, Penn, Harold, Kingsmoor, Charnley, John Snow, Henry Moore and ITU.

Previous Figures

Tuesday: 1289.8 cases per 100,000

Monday: 1281.8 cases per 100,000

Sunday: 1188.7 cases per 100,000

Saturday: 1093.4 cases per 100,000

Friday: 1130.2 cases per 100,000

Thursday: 1016.5 cases per 100,000

Wednesday: 939.5 cases per 100,000.

Tuesday: 1013.0 cases per 100,000

Remember, these figures relate to December 31st and not today (January 6th).

This places Harlow in 7th out of 315 local authorities.

Reference point

https://coronavstats.co.uk

Plus Twitter account @RP131

Increase

Dec 16th: 581.2

Dec 17th: 657.0

Dec 18th: 736.0

Dec 19th: 771.8

Dec 20th: 833.8

Dec 21st: 933.8

Dec 22nd: 976.3

Dec 23rd: 987.7

Dec 24th: 1013.0

Dec 25th: 939.5

Dec 26th: 1016.5

Dec 27th: 1130.2

Dec 28th: 1093.4

Dec 29th: 1188.7

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 800 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

Thurrock: 2nd: 1407.6

Broxbourne: 4th: 1330.2

Epping Forest: 6th: 1322.1

Brentwood: 8th: 1284.1

Havering : 10th: 1202.8

Basildon: 16th: 1149.0

Southend: 18th: 1085.6

Braintree: 21st: 1066.2

Chelmsford: 27th: 1032

Local Authorities

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

Seven–day rolling rate by specimen date – ending Jan 1st