Deaths and test results

Four additional Coronavirus deaths announced by the York Hospital Trust today. Two occurred on Friday and a further two yesterday.

ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX additional positive test results announced bring the cumulative total to 7718. The infection rate is still rising.

Rate /100k population is now 380.8. It is trending to rise to at least 490.1

The post Christmas peak in infections has now worked its way into the neighbourhood figures. There are now no York neighbourhoods with fewer cases than the 100 threshold.

The infection rate in Woodthorpe/Acomb Park now exceeds 1000.

The latest results (to 28th December) on the number of local COVID tests carried out and the “positivity” rate have been published. The number of tests completed each day is around 750 although lower over the Christmas holiday period.

The highest positivity rate was 15.8% on 16th October.

The positivity rate on 28th December stood at 11%. However this doesn’t include the higher post Christmas infection rate figures which were seen from 29th December.

Vaccination

The pace of vaccinations is expected to step up from later this week. The rate of progress will be influenced by the availability of qualified staff,

Vaccine Queue Calculator for the UK (click link below)

Detailed COVID report

A new report into virus transmission in the UK has been published. Although it contains only national figures it does give some background on how the pandemic is spreading.