City out-vaccinating Midlands neighbours against coronavirus
DERBY is out-vaccinating its fellow East Midlands cities by some margin, while more than 57% of Derbyshire’s adults have had their Covid19 vaccines.
The county has set a weekly record for the number of Covid-19 vaccines administered in the most recent week of data released by NHS England, up to March 21, with more than 66,600 jabs given in Derbyshire.
This is during continual shortages in vaccine supplies, with a further shortage predicted through April, though second dose appointments and those already booked for first doses will be honoured.
Shortages recently have seen slots heavily reduced at the Derby Arena mass vaccination centre and community sites frequently closed.
A total of 481,148 Derbyshire residents have now been vaccinated against Covid-19, with 19,905 residents now having received their second doses. This figure will continue to rise at pace as more patients continue to hit the 12-week mark since their first jab.
Derbyshire has vaccinated 57.23% of its entire population aged 16 and above, the vast majority of whom will be adults. Meanwhile, 97.24% of the county and city’s 65-plus population has been vaccinated.
Out of the districts in the county, the Derbyshire Dales has vaccinated the largest portion of its population aged 16-plus at 60.79%, placing it 23rd out of 314 districts in England.
Of the Derbyshire districts, the Dales has also vaccinated the largest portion of its 65-plus population, but shares this with Amber Valley. Both areas have jabbed 96.23% of this aged bracket. This ranks them 235th nationally.
Derby city sits at the lowest in the county with when it comes to vaccinating its 16-plus population with 46.08%, ranking it 229th nationally.
Derby also has Derbyshire’s lownationally est proportion of its 65-plus population vaccinated against Covid with 92.16%, ranking it 235th nationally.
However, despite Derby’s low ranking in the county, it is head and shoulders above a vast range of major English cities, including its East Midlands neighbours Nottingham
and Leicester.
Nottingham has vaccinated 34.08% of its 16-plus population (12 percentage points lower than Derby) and 88.87% of its 65+ population (three percentage points lower than Derby), ranking it 290th and 275th nationally.
Leicester has vaccinated 36.67% of its 16+ population (10 percentage points lower than Derby) and 88.03% of its 65-plus population (four percentage points lower than Derby), ranking it 283rd and 281st nationally.
Derby has vaccinated high proportions of its population – both 16-plus and 65-plus – than Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Coventry, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and Oxford, among others.
The “hyper-local” area of the county – of which there are 6,792 across England – which has vaccinated the highest proportion of its 16-plus population is Wingerworth and Holymoorside in North East Derbyshire with 67.6%. This ranks it 128th nationally – in the top 1.88% of the country.
New Normanton in Derby has vaccinated Derbyshire’s lowest proportion of residents aged 16-plus with 23.69%, placing it 6,561st – the bottom 3.4% of the country.
Willington South and Repton in South Derbyshire is the hyper-local area of the county that has vaccinated the highest proportion of its 65-plus population with 97.47%, placing it 33rd in the country and in the top 0.49%.
Conversely, New Normanton in Derby has vaccinated the lowest proportion of its 65-plus population with 69.28%, placing it 6,720th nationally – in the bottom 1.06%.
Of the 131 hyper-local areas which make up Derbyshire, 113 (86%) have vaccinated more than half of their adult populations. This leaves 18 areas which have not, 13 of which are in Derby.
Of those in Derbyshire who have been vaccinated, black, Asian and minority ethnic residents make up 6.32%, despite representing 14.45% of the county and city as of the 2011 census. This is marginally down from the previous week of data.