NEW Covid cases continue to cling on in parts of the Winchester district.
Numbers are still on the rise in Winchester East and another hotspot is Whiteley Knowle and Wickham.
In Winchester East, which covers part of the city centre, Winnall, Highcliffe and Bar End, the rolling seven-day rate per 100,000 has risen from 282 the Sunday before last to 417 today. In Winchester East in the seven days to Wednesday January 20 there were 34 new cases, up 11, an increase of 48 per cent.
Numbers are rising in a few other areas, closest to the Portsmouth hotspot. In Whiteley Knowle and Wickham the rolling rate to January 20 is 418, now above the England average. In the seven days to January 20 there were 49 new cases, up one, or 2 per cent.
Overall, the rates in the Winchester district are dropping so sharply that on the latest available figures there are only 43 areas with a better record out of 315 areas.
Today only 20 new cases were reported the lowest daily number since December 15.
Across the whole district in the seven days to January 20 there were 329 cases, down 56, or 14 per cent for a rolling rate of 263.5 per 100,000 people.
In Chilbolton, Clatford and Barton Stacey, in the Test Valley area, the numbers are now so low that no information is provided. It appears white on the Government maps.
The number of cases reported in Winchester district in the last seven days to today, Monday January 25, remains lower than in the previous week. Today there were only 20 new cases, the lowest number since December 15, taking to 255 the number for the last seven days. The previous week had 417 cases.
No Covid deaths were reported in Winchester district today. The number of deaths from the pandemic in the district remains at 139, or 111.3 per 100,000.
The Winchester ‘district’ covers more than just the ‘city’ and covers a chunk of Hampshire from Micheldever to Denmead, and Crawley to Ropley.
Although new cases are falling across most of the district the number of patients at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital remains high. There are currently 100 at the RHCH up from 82 last week. At North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke there are 148, down from 152 and one at Andover War Memorial, down from three.
Twenty-five more patients with coronavirus have died in hospitals across Hampshire, according to the latest NHS figures.
Ten deaths were recorded at Hampshire Hospitals trust that runs the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. Deaths at Hampshire Hospitals trust are now at 344.
NHS England statistics published today (Monday January 25) show that four more deaths were recorded at University Hospital Southampton, bringing the total to 358 since the start of the pandemic.
A further 11 deaths were recorded at Portsmouth Hospitals Trust, bringing its total to 679.
No new deaths were recorded at Southern Heath NHS Trust, keeping the total at 40 deaths, nor at Solent NHS Trust, eight.
The county’s hospital coronavirus death toll now stands at 1,429.
Across the Hampshire County Council area 24 deaths were reported today, according to the Office for National Statistics. These are when deaths are reported not when they happened. It brings to 1,708 the death toll in the HCC area since last March, a rate of 123.5 per 100,000 people.
These fatalities would have been people contracting the virus several weeks ago when the number of cases was soaring. Even as new cases decline it will be some time before hospital admissions and deaths match the fall-off.
Across the county council area today 418 cases were reported bringing the total to 52,495, for a rate of 3,797 per 100,000. Some 4,914 have been reported in the seven days to January 20, down 1,410 or 22 per cent, for a rolling number of 355.4, which is still above the England average, but falling.
The number of cases in the Winchester district since the start of the pandemic is now 4,174, an infection rate of 3,343 per 100,000, well below the England average of 5,698.
Deaths reported in Southampton are now 234, no change, or 92.7 per 100,000. In Portsmouth the figure is 253, up four, for 117.7 per 100,000, now above the Winchester figure of 111.3.
Below are the confirmed cases by local authority on January 25:
Basingstoke and Deane: 56 (6,824 in total since start of pandemic)
East Hampshire: 24 (4,080)
Eastleigh: 37 (4,520)
Fareham: 34 (4,215)
Gosport: 39 (3,005)
Hart: 22 (3,713)
Havant: 35 (6,019)
New Forest: 40 (5,030)
Portsmouth: 104 (11,843)
Rushmoor: 72 (6,735)
Southampton: 98 (11,325)
Test Valley: 57 (4,180)
Winchester: 20 (4,174)
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