One of the UK's most remote towns has been hit by a higher rate of coronavirus cases than anywhere else in England and Wales.
According to the latest Government figures, at least 552 people in Barrow-in-Furness, tucked away on the coast of Cumbria, caught the killer bug since the outbreak began in February.
There are just 67,000 people living in the town on the Furness peninsula in the north west of England, so with a rate of 882 cases per 100,000 this means equates to 0.88 per cent.
This means Barrow's infection rate is more than double that of Wales (365 per 100,000) and over three times England's rate (244) and Scotland's (251).
When compared to the rate in Northern Ireland's rate of 220 it is quadruple.
Out of the cases in Barrow, 61 people have died after contracting coronavirus, giving it a death rate of 91 for every 100,000 – this is one the worst death rates outside of London.
Officials are perplexed as to why the town has suffered so badly even though it attracts far fewer tourists than the number that visit the nearby Lake District.
An Office for National Statistics (ONS) report this month claimed that people living in the poorest parts of the country are dying at twice the rate of those in wealthier areas.
Experts say poorer people are more at risk as they are more likely to work in jobs that cannot be done from home, live in overcrowded homes and use public transport more.
Lee Roberts, deputy leader of Barrow Borough Council, believes high levels of deprivation could be a factor of the high number of cases.
He called the figures in Barrow a 'big worry' as lockdown measures are relaxed today.
He added: "Most of Barrow is very compact: 40 to 50 per cent of Barrow is terraced housing and we’ve got a lot of flats, we’ve got a lot of deprivation, a lot of health inequalities."
The poorest are also more likely to suffer from underlying health conditions and have compromised immune systems - putting them at an increased risk.
Barrow has high levels of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) compared with the national average – both of which make symptoms of the virus worse.
Mr Roberts added: "We have quite a lot of historic respiratory problems from people who worked in old industry, in the ship yards."
Barrow also has higher than average numbers of patients with diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity, which are all risk factors for Covid-19.
According to some estimates, over 80s are 12 time more likely to fall critically ill with coronavirus and Barrow’s population is also older than average, with 22.7 per cent of residents aged 65 to 90.
In England the average is 18.3 per cent.
But some of the cases can be traced to a house party in Barrow which took place before lockdown in March.
It was attended by a 'super spreader' resulting in at least six people contracting the virus and the town's first ever death, according to The Guardian.
But how the disease infected hundreds more in Barrow is a mystery.
The figures show Lancaster in Lancashire has the second highest rate at 753 and Cumbria is also home to the area with the third highest infection rate as South Lakeland, which is east of Barrow-in-Furness, having a rate of 488 cases per 100,000 people.
Experts are unable to work out why the North West has become a hotspot for coronavirus cases but local public health officials think it might be because more people are being tested.
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust (UHMBT) covers three hospitals treating coronavirus patients - the Furness general in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary and the Westmorland general in Kendal in South Lakeland.
According to NHS England the trust has recorded 156 deaths.
Colin Cox, the director of public health for Cumbria, claims the NHS trust began mass-testing its employees and patients at the end of February and has done three times as much tests on average.
He told The Guardian: "The rate of testing in Barrow has been two to three times higher than in many other parts of the north-west, so that will explain a fair chunk of it, but I don’t think it will explain all of it."
Ashford in Kent has the fourth highest infection rate of 484 cases per 100,000, followed by Gateshead (478), Sunderland (477), South Tyneside (447), Middlesborough (446), Carlisle (430) and the tenth place has been named as Brent - the only region in London to feature in the top 10.
ONS figures shows there have been 28 deaths around a small cluster of streets in Harlesden, which is in Brent, alone.
Hastings in East Sussex has the lowest rate in England with 47 in 100,000 contracting the virus.
This is followed by Mendip, Somerset (50), Torridge in North Devon (51), Rutland in East Midlands (68), West Lindsey in Lincolnshire (80, North Devon (87), North East Lincolnshire (89), Rother in East Sussex (90), South Hams in Devon (91) and Arun in West Sussex (91).
University Hospitals Birmingham has been revealed as the hospital trust to be hardest in the country by coronavirus with at least 820 deaths.
Throughout England, every major hospital trust, except children's hospitals, has now recorded at least person who has died after testing with coronavirus but some have been hit harder than others.
The 10 worst-affected hospital trusts, in London, Birmingham, Derby and Manchester, have recorded 4,808 deaths.
This equates to 16 per cent of the total death toll at just 4.6 per cent of the country's hospitals.
The figures also shows coronavirus is more prevalent in the big cities as 11 of the 20 worst affected hospitals have been in London, two in Birmingham, two in Manchester and the others in Liverpool, Leeds and Sunderland.
The 820 people who have died at the hospitals in Birmingham make up 3.5 per cent of the 23,359 who are confirmed coronavirus death in England's hospitals so far.
The death toll there is 47 per cent higher than Barts Health Trust in central London, the second most affected, where 558 people died.
According to NHS England data London North West University Healthcare (550), King's College Hospital (461), Royal Free London (452), Imperial College Healthcare (400) Barking, Havering & Redbridge (379); and Lewisham and Greenwich (374) fill out the majority of the 10 hospitals with the most victims.
The others have been named as University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (424) and Pennine Acute Hospitals in Manchester (390).
Scientists say coronavirus is most likely to spread in cities because people live closer together than in more rural areas.
They are more likely to come close to large numbers of strangers, rely on public transport and touch contaminated surfaces such as handrails or door handles.
While 40 hospitals have recorded 200 or more deaths, and make up half of the entire victim count (12,495), there are only 20 which have recorded just one death each.
Another 13 have recorded two deaths each and 115 have had 100 or fewer fatalities.
Smaller, more niche settings such as community health partnerships, minor hospitals, private hospitals and children's hospitals, have recorded fewer fatalities.
Woodlands Hospital in Darlington, which is privately run by BMI, is the only hospital listed on NHS England's statistics with no deaths.
Testing data also offers an insight into how the coronavirus is affecting different areas of England and the UK differently.
Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, said the data shows that "coronavirus thrives on inequality".
