Villages have two of worst infection rates in England

CORONAVIRUS infection rates are skyrocketing in one area of Huddersfield.

Kirklees currently has an infection rate of 435.5 per 100,000 people - but Honley and Brockholes has far exceeded this, with an infection rate in the 1,000s.

The area has a current rate of 1,123.1 per 100,000 people and, in the week to October 5, recorded a staggering 94 new cases.

This is one of the highest in England and puts it in ‘dark red’ on the government’s interactive coronavirus map, which shows the infection rate and number of new cases on a week-by-week basis for every area of England.

The map is colour coded from green - to show low infection rates - to dark red, which indicates the highest infection rates.

An infection rate of 800 or more is considered to be a severely high rate.

The data for the UK as a whole is presented slightly differently, with cases and infection rate data showing for the week to October 10 and showing that the current rate in the country is just 348.3.

This means that just one neighbourhood in Huddersfield has an infection rate which is more than 200 per cent higher than the country’s average.

But it is not just Honley and Brockholes that has a high infection rate in Huddersfield. Sowerby and Luddendenfoot also has a rate in the 1,000s - coming in at 1,110.8 for the week to October 5.

Other areas to have a high infection rate in the town include Meltham (rate of 875.7), Mirfield Central and Hopton (rate of 898.8), Northorpe and Crossley (rate of 986.8) and Battyeford (rate of 857.1).

Todmorden, Sowerby and Luddendenfoot, Ripponden, and Rishworth and Barkisland all also have rates above 800 per 100,000 people.