How Romsey and Test Valley Covid infections have changed since lockdown

An interactive Government map has shown that, since the start of the third national lockdown on January 5, Test Valley has gone from having seven areas where cases were rising to five.

According to a map on the government coronavirus dashboard, in the week to January 21, when the latest figures were available, Andover London Road & East Anton had the highest number of cases in the borough with 112.

This increased by 25 cases from the previous week and had a weekly rolling rate of 660.2 cases per 100,000 people.

The map created by the Advertiser below, using Public Health England data, shows the comparison between the start of the national lockdown on the left, and the latest data on the right.

In the seven days to January 7, the three areas with the lowest number of cases were Chilbolton, Clatford & Barton Stacey, Andover South and Andover Charlton & Bourne Valley.

Click the map below to slide between the two images: Left: Jan 7. Right: Jan 21.

In the latest data shown above, Chilbolton, Clatford & Barton Stacey continues to be the area with the lowest amount of infections, recording just 5 cases in the week ending on January 21 - up by 3 from the previous week.

It had a weekly rolling rate of 95.0 cases per 100,000 people.

In the same time, Romsey Town had 11 cases - down by 1 on the previous week - and had a weekly rolling rate of 184.3 cases per 100,000 people.

For reference, the map is divided into Middle Super Output Areas (MSOAs), which are areas with an average population of 7,200.

It then colour-codes MSOAs depending on their seven day rolling infection rate, with areas placed into the boundaries of 0-9 (yellow), 10-49 (light green), 50-99 (dark green), 100-199 (light blue), 200-399 (dark blue), 400 to 799 (light purple) and 800 plus (dark purple).

Anywhere labelled '800 plus' is today deemed by the Government to be a 'hotspot'.