Covid-19 Cases Across Harborough Rise By 75% In Seven Days
Written by HFM News on 4th January 2021
Cases of Coronavirus across the Harborough District continue to rise sharply.
411 people tested positive in the seven days to yesterday – a 75% increase on the previous week – with 177 new cases confirmed.
The district’s infection rate is now 340.1 per 100,000, people according to the latest government figures – the second highest in Leicestershire.
More than 50,000 coronavirus cases have now been recorded across Leicester and Leicestershire since the start of the pandemic.
Source: Government Coronvirus dashboard
The latest seven-day infection rates, area by area, and total cases, are:
- Oadby and Wigston: 391.1 cases per 100,000 people (223 cases in the last seven days)
- Harborough: 340.1 cases per 100,000 people (411 cases in the last seven days)
- Blaby: 291.6 cases per 100,000 people (296)
- Melton: 267.5 cases per 100,000 people (137)
- North West Leicestershire: 252.9 cases per 100,000 people (262)
- Hinckley and Bosworth: 238.7 cases per 100,000 people (270)
- England Average: 476.9 cases per 100,000 people (268,433)
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