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East Riding Covid Rate Drops Again

The East Riding’s rate of Covid cases per 100,000 people has dropped from 370 over the last week.

A further 1,144 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus across Hull and East Yorkshire in the week up to Friday.

The Government’s latest rolling figures, updated on Friday, show the case rate per 100,000 people across the region was 245.3 in the East Riding in the seven days up to Sunday, April 24, the latest weekly data available.

A total of 105,331 new coronavirus cases were recorded nationally in the week up to Friday, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 22,038,340, with 1,560 new deaths recorded, making a total of 174,912.

Local Covid-19 data for East Riding

The number of positive test results in each area since the pandemic began is recorded below, with new weekly positive test results in brackets.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire: 105,711 (+648)

The number of people being treated in hospital in Hull and East Riding as a result of Covid

  • In hospital: 192 (- 13 from Thursday, April 28)
  • In intensive care: four (+ two from Thursday, April 28)

Covid death breakdown for each area

The number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test result in each area since the pandemic began is recorded below, with deaths in the last seven days, and deaths removed from the total following revisions to past data, in brackets.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire: 1,056 (Up 13 in the last seven days, up 13 weekly to Friday, April 15 to 1,126 with coronavirus on death certificate)

Vaccinations

Government data up to Thursday, April 28 shows that in the UK, 142,160,179 jabs have been given so far, 53,184,869 first doses, 49,727,305 second doses and 39,248,005 boosters.

The local data shows:

East Riding: First dose 285,531 (90.2 per cent), second dose 274,407 (86.7 per cent), booster 232,356 (73.4 per cent)

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