Oakham: Further rise in Rutland 7-day infection rate but still well down on recent highs
By The Editor
24th Sep 2021 | Local News
Rutland's 7-day case rate is up again but it is still lower than a week ago.
The county is also fast approaching 9 weeks without a single fatality.
Today, England's smallest county recorded 24 cases compared with 26 positive tests yesterday, 13 on Wednesday, 14 last Friday and 26 two weeks ago.
This gives the district a 7-day infection rate of 289.1 cases per 100,000 of population, compared with 276.7 yesterday, 247.1 on Wednesday, 331.1 last Friday and 343.4 two weeks ago,
The county now has recorded 3180 having tested positive with the virus since the pandemic started- about one-in-13 of its population- better than England's one-in-9 of the population.
Rutland has now exceeded 8 weeks without a Covid-related fatality.
Public Health England figures say the last such death was on the weekend of July 25.
Since the pandemic started, 66 county residents have died within 28 days of testing positive. This is about one for every 600 residents, which compares with the national average of one-in-500 residents.
Prior to the county's latest fatality, the last recorded such death in England's smallest county was on Wednesday April 28. Before that it was Thursday March 25.
Nationally, 35,623 cases were recorded today, making it 234,213 over the week, an increase of 27,881 (13.5%)
on the previous week. The number of recorded deaths today was 180, making it 1,000 over the past week, an increase of 5 or 0.5 per cent over the week before. The number of hospital admissions was 794, making it 5,756 over the past week, a decrease of of 1,085 or 15.9 per cent over the week before.
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