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Scarborough Borough COVID Infection Rate Highest Since January

Thursday, 31 March 2022 06:00

By Matthew Pells with additional reporting from Jacob Webster, Local Democracy Reporter

The COVID infection rate in the Scarborough borough has increased three fold this month.

The COVID infection rate in the Scarborough Borough is the highest it's been since January.

The seven day rate per 100 thousand people stands at 900, that's up from 303 at the start of the month.

And Public Health Consultant, Dr Victoria Turner says those numbers probably don't reflect the full picture.

Dr Turner says the ending of test and trace will have played a part in the increase as more infected people will be walking around unaware they have the virus, But Dr Turner says there are other factors at play as well.

Dr Turner says that although there has been a marked increase in cases during March, the rate of increase does appear to be slowing and is expected to plateau shortly.

Dr Turner also said the latest wave was being driven by the new strain of Omicron officially known as BA.2  – separating it from BA.1 which took hold in the UK in December.

The new strain is now responsible for almost nine in 10 cases in England.

Dr Turner added:

“Although case rates are still increasing, the rate of increase is slowing down somewhat and we can just start to see a flattening off.

“We hope that means we will soon be approaching something of a plateau and then a decrease.”

The rise in cases has been followed by a rise in hospitalisations, with 364 Covid patients receiving treatment across North Yorkshire’s main hospitals as of last Thursday.

This included 152 patients in York, 71 in Scarborough and 30 in Harrogate.

Although hospitalisations are increasing, it doesn’t mean all those people have been admitted because of the Covid as many were taken in for different reasons before testing positive.

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