Deaths
FIVE additional hospital deaths announced today. One occurred on Wednesday, three on Thursday and one on Friday.
That brings the cumulative total of COVID-19 fatalities at the York Hospital Trust to 277 since 1st September 2020
Test Results
FORTY TWO additional positive test results announced today. Brings the cumulative case total to 11,089.
Rate /100k population has fallen to 213.19, Now trending to fall below 200 when Tuesday’s figures are confirmed.
Based on the trend followed by the second wave of infections (between 28th November and 8th December 2020), we can expect the, 7 day rolling case number, average to fall below 17.0 before the middle of February.
Currently it stands at 64.14.
The trick this time will be to ensure that the fall in cases is sustained!
The York infection rate (213.2) has now fallen below the regional (Yorkshire) rate (217.0)
Neighbourhoods
Infection rates are continuing to fall in all but one neighbourhood
70% fall in cases since peak on 8th January
The comparison below shows how much progress has been made over the last 3 weeks. There has been a fall in case numbers in EVERY neighbourhood in York.
Vaccinations
National
A record number of 598,389 first dose vaccinations were performed nationwide yesterday. 10.621 second doses were administered.
In total 8,977,329 vaccinations have now been competed. 491.053 second doses have been administered.