WHILE Covid-19 infection rates have continued to fall in many areas of Warrington, four areas have seen increases in the latest small area data.
With new cases over seven days down from 979 top 653, four areas, Winwick & Burtonwood, Locking Stumps, Blackbrook and Bewsey & Dallam have seen an increase in new cases.
There were a total of 653 new cases week ending April, compared to 979 the previous week and 1,655 the week before that.
Small area cases for Week Ending April 16 (April 9)
Culcheth West & Croft 15 (27)
Culcheth East & Hollins Green 23 (24)
Winwick & Burtonwood 27 (19)
Locking Stumps 20 (13)
Oakwood & Gorse Covert 9 (24)
Hulme 20 (40)
Houghton Green & Fearnhead 23 (49)
Blackbrook 24 (22)
Kingswood & Whittle Hall 22 (73)
Callands & Old Hall 54 (80)
Orford 24 (28)
Padgate & Paddington 23 (42)
Bewsey & Dallam 29 (28)
Woolston 23 (37)
Great Sankey 25 (52)
Hood Manor & Sankey Bridges 25 (39)
Fairfield & Howley 23 (46)
Central Warrington 35 (53)
Penketh & Cuerdley 32 (40)
Latchford 24 (45)
Lymm 54 (63)
Grappenhall 28 (29)
Stockton Heath & Hillcliffe 27 (43)
Appleton Thorn, Stretton & Walton 21 (38)
Appleton 23 (25)
Total 653 (979)
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To find out more about COVID-19 testing, and to book a test if you have symptoms, visit http://warrington.gov.uk/get-tested-coronavirus
For the latest COVID-19 guidance for Warrington visit https://www.warrington.gov.uk/coronavirus-latest-guidance
Local data is also available at https://www.warrington.gov.uk/coronavirus-figures-warrington
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It’s hardly surprising that the figures for the number of positive cases has fallen now that the Government has stopped providing free LFT kits. Don’t get me wrong, I agree that they can’t continue to keep providing them for free. But to suggest that the transmission rate is falling rather than the likelihood of less people conducting testing is extremely misleading.
If you check out our regular updates you will see they include the fact that testing is falling which as you say is only to be expected. But we can only work with the figures we have and we can’t report that rates are not falling when the figures show they are – testing or not.
The key data, which we report most days is the hospital figures which have also thankfully been falling recently, although still high.
You will also see in the report that rates have increased in four areas – despite reduced testing. COVID is here forever. We just need to live with it and follow advice to the best of our ability while living our lives.
Living with it surely means being able to test and record the test results as was the case up until HMG decided to essentially shut up shop. As things stand only test results reported by GPS will be logged on the NHS app. Any results from privately purchased test kits will not be recorded. This is not the action of a responsible government.
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