Deaths
An additional seven deaths have been announced by the York Hospital Trust today. Three occurred yesterday and four on Tuesday.
It means that 68 people have lost their lives to COVID-19 at the York and Scarborough hospitals over the last two weeks.
Test results
SIXTY THREE (63) additional positive test results were announced today. Brings the cumulative case total in the City to 10,918
The case rate /100k population has reduced to 269.22
Infection rates are continuing to fall at all levels across the country.
Neighbourhoods
Only three neighbourhoods now have very high infection rates (Haxby, New Earswick and Westfield).
Woodthorpe/Acomb Park has dropped below the 400 case rate benchmark for the first time since 22nd December 2020.
Four areas are now below the 200 case rate benchmark (Dunnington, the City centre, Huntington and Poppleton/Rufforth/Askhams).
It is likely that one of those neighbourhoods will become the first to fall below 100, and be marked as “green” (below average), since 28th December when Heslington recorded a 93.8 case rate.
Huntington has fallen from having 45 cases to just 10 during the last eleven days
Vaccinations
Nationally 282,812 people received a first dose of vaccine yesterday. That brought the cumulative total to 7,447,199.
2,142 people received the second dose bringing the cumulative total to 476,298
Hospitals
According to government figures, there were 215 COVID-19 patients being cared for by the York Hospital Trust on Tuesday 26th January
The were 11 patients in intensive care
Fixed Penalty Notices for COVID offences
The Police have issued 19 fixed penalty notices in York over the last week to people who have been found breaking COVID restrictions.
Most were for unlawful indoor gatherings.
The breakdown across the county is;
North Yorkshire Police say that they have issued a further 87 FPNs for breaches of the Coronavirus regulations since the 19 January 2021.
This takes the total number of FPNs issued since the third national lockdown began on 6 January 2021 to 328 . NYP have issued 2216 COVID notices in total since March 2020.