THE NUMBER of infections in Harlow has increased.

It means that Harlow is now 4th out of 315 local authorities in England.

Harlow registered 1524.1 cases per 100,000

That is 1327 cases in total. A leap of 112 since yesterday.

Remember this refers to January 4th but published on January 9th.

This looks like a particularly grim set of results. All the percentages are particularly high. Some startlingly high

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 179 Covid in-patients, including 16 on ventilators.

There are 78 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

Thursday: 1395.1 cases per 100,000

Wednesday: 1369.1 cases per 100,000

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

Remember, these figures relate to January 3rd and not today (January 8th).

Reference point

https://coronavstats.co.uk

Plus Twitter account @RP131

Increase

Dec 16th: 581.2

Dec 21st: 933.8

Dec 25th: 939.5

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: 3rd: 1566.5

Epping Forest: 5th: 1519.5

Broxbourne: 9th: 1354.9

Havering : 10th: 1416.7

Brentwood: 11th: 1372.4

Basildon: 13th: 1332.8

Southend: 18th: 1192.1

Braintree: 29th: 1116.2

Chelmsford: 35th: 1113.3

Local Authorities

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

Seven–day rolling rate by specimen date – ending Jan 4th.