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COVID Infection Rate Increases Further in Scarborough Borough

The Seven day infection rate crept up again in the Scarborough Borough yesterday.

The latest figure stands at 175 cases for every 100,000 people, it's the highest rate in North Yorkshire but below the all England average.

Richard Webb from the counties Local Resilience Forum says COVID is still taking lives in North Yorkshire

Louise Wallace is the newly appointed director of public health in the county. Louise following the guidance is key to keeping the infection numbers under control.

The Government is due to reassess which areas of England are in Which COVID tiers later today.

Greater London was placed in to Tier 3 yesterday  along with just parts of Essex.

That's fuelled speculation that the Government could now allocate tiers on a district council level rather than a countywide level and that could have implications for North Yorkshire where the Scarborough Borough has much higher infection rates than other areas of the county.

But Richard Webb from the local resilience forum says it's not a straight forward situation.

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