TODAY’S report is going to make for strange reading.

Harlow is now third out of 315 local authorities in England.

However today has also seen a fall in infection rates, a fall in number of cases and the smallest seven day percentage increase in a number of days.

Harlow registered 1454.1 cases per 100,000 for January 5th.

Harlow registered 1524.1 cases per 100,000 on January 4th.

That is 1266 cases in total. A drop of 61.

Remember this refers to January 5th but published on January 10th.

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: Publication Date:

Cases per 100,00

Jan 4th: 1524.2

Jan 3rd: 1395.5

Jan 2nd: 1434.5

Jan 1st: 1369.1

Dec 31st: 1289.8

Dec 30th: 1281.8

Dec 29th: 1188.7

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

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: 4th: 1453.4

Broxbourne: 8th: 1349.7

Epping Forest: 9th: 1338.0

Havering : 10th: 1416.7

Basildon: 14th: 1240.4

Brentwood: 23rd: 1159.4

Southend: 26th: 1140.8

Braintree: 30th: 1075.3

Chelmsford: 38th: 1037.6

Local Authorities

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

Seven–day rolling rate by specimen date – ending Jan 5th.