The eight northern Lincolnshire areas where Covid has now been ‘suppressed’

EIGHT areas of northern Lincolnshire are now showing as having ‘suppressed’ coronavirus in the latest figures.

It means in these areas, Covid infection rates have dropped to less than three cases. Spanning both North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire, the suppressed ward areas are: Caistor, Kelsey and Keelby; Cleethorpes and Haverstoe; Cleethorpes Beacon Hill; Goxhill, Barrow & New Holland; Laceby, Healing, and Stallingborough; Littlefield South & Grange; New Clee and Scunthorpe Yaddlethorpe.

It comes as a total of 41 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in northern Lincolnshire in the past 24 hours.

Of those, 22 received a positive result in North East Lincolnshire and 19 others tested in North Lincolnshire.

North Lincolnshire has now supassed the 8,000 milestone, with 8,066 confirmed cases since the pandemic began.

In North East Lincolnshire, there has now been 7,703 cases. Across the UK, 5,455 people tested positive for coronavirus, as of March 1.

It puts the UK’s rate per 100,000 resident population at 100.4.

This compares to the rates in North East Lincolnshire at 136 and North Lincolnshire at 89.4. Sadly, two people have died with coronavirus in hospitals run by the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust.

Both happened on Saturday, February 27, bringing the month’s death toll to 26.

It means a total of 423 people have now died with coronavirus in the region’s hospitals since the pandemic began.

As of Monday, there were 66 patients in hospital with the virus – 34 at Grimsby and 32 at Scunthorpe. Of these, one was in ICU at Grimsby.

The UK death toll has increased by 132 in the past 24 hours, making it the lowest Monday rise in about four months.