WINCHESTER district is potentially Covid-free for the first time in more than six months.
The official Government shows the 14 areas of the district with two or fewer new cases in the seven days to April 21, marking them white on the map. Wednesday April 21 is the most recent day for which localised figures are available.
The last two area with more than two cases over the weekend had been Whiteley, Knowle and Wickham and Winchester Central and South.
It is unclear whether there are no cases in an area or just one or two.
All 14 areas of the Winchester district are now marked white on the Government map
And, for the 55th day, no Covid-related deaths have been reported in the Winchester district. Since the start if the first lockdown last spring 183 people have died within 28 days of a positive test. There have been no new ones since March 3.
The twelve other areas of the Winchester district have reported fewer than three cases in those seven days and are now marked white on the Government map are: Winchester North and Sparsholt; Winchester East; Winchester West; Stanmore; Oliver’s Battery and Hursley; Springvale and Itchen Abbas; Alresford; South Wonston, Sutton Scotney and Micheldever; Colden Common and Twyford; Swanmore, Hambledon and West Meon; Bishop’s Waltham and Waltham Chase; Denmead and Southwick.
Across the Winchester district in those seven days there have been 10 cases, down 11, or 52 per cent, on the previous week for a rolling number per 100,000 people of just 8.0. A week ago the equivalent number was 21, up four on the previous seven days, for a rolling 16.8. A month ago the figures were 37, up three for a rolling 29.6 per 100,000.
The Press Association national news agency reported that figures to April 22 show only 14 local authority areas out of 315 in the UK with a better record than Winchester. A week ago there were 111, showing the rapid decline in numbers compared to most other places.
Winchester is now the only area in Hampshire where the rate per 100,000 people is lower than 10:
Winchester: the area of Hampshire with the best numbers
No deaths have been reported by the NHS in Hampshire today.
The number of Covid deaths in the three hospitals of the Hampshire Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust (RHCH, Basingstoke and Andover) remains at 439, with one death on Thursday, the first for 34 days.
Today there were only seven Covid patients in Basingstoke hospital, one at Royal Hampshire County Hospital and none in Andover, down four on previous week (12).
No Winchester schools are affected by Covid and there are only six across the whole of Hampshire, including Thornden secondary in Chandler's Ford.
There are currently no cases linked to the university, according to its website today.
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