As 450 new cases are revealed, Hull now has the highest Covid rate
MASSIVE SPIKE IN POSITIVE TESTS OVER THE PAST WEEK
HULL has become the worst area in the country for weekly coronavirus infections.
More than 450 new coronavirus cases were confirmed in Hull and the East Riding in the past 24 hours.
But it is the weekly infection rate, recorded up to November 7, that has seen Hull attain the appalling status of top spot in the table of areas with the highest rates of infection per 100,000 people.
According to the PA, Hull recorded 1,888 new coronavirus cases in the week up to November 7.
That was a massive increase on the 1,134 cases recorded in the previous week, the seven days up to October 31, which saw the weekly infection rate climb from 436.5 to a massive 726.8 cases per 100,000 people in the city.
Hull is now one of only three places in the UK to have a weekly infection rate over 700, according to those latest figures.
Only Oldham and Blackburn with Darwen are comparable, with rates of 720.8 and 715.4 respectively.
But the recent spike in infections is being felt across Humberside. The rate in North East Lincolnshire has also climbed dramatically over that same time period, from 453.7 infections per 100,000 people in the seven days up to October 31 to 632.4 the following week.
It is now the fourth worst region in the country for weekly infection rates.
It comes as the latest daily figures released by Public Health England yesterday showed that cases have risen by 254 in Hull and 199 in East Riding.
This brings the total number of cases recorded in Hull since the start of the pandemic to 6,810 and 7,214 in East Riding.
Expressed as a rate per 100,000 people since the start of the pandemic, Hull’s infection rate is now
2,621.5, while that figure in the East Riding is 2,114.5.
Case numbers are still rising in almost every part of East Yorkshire with much of Hull, as well as East Riding towns like Hessle, Howden, Hornsea and Hedon reporting weekly rates far in excess of the national average.
The hope is that the second national lockdown, which is scheduled to end on December 2, will go a long way towards cutting those numbers.
Sadly, five more people have died in Hull’s hospitals after contracting coronavirus on Monday and Tuesday, which means Monday, November 9 is officially Hull’s deadliest day of the pandemic so far with eight deaths occurring on that day alone.
Hull and East Yorkshire’s death toll now stands at 265.
All of the deaths occurred at either Hull Royal Infirmary or Castle Hill Hospital.
Three patients were revealed on Wednesday to have passed away on Tuesday, November 10.
It comes as the number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK’S hospitals has risen by 595, passing the grim threshold of 50,000 deaths across the UK.