Three areas across the Bristol region barely saw any new coronavirus cases in the run-up to New Year.
Public Health England's interactive data map identifies three places 'in the green' in the Bristol area, when COVID-19 case numbers and infection rates are compared.
It could be of some reassurance to parents sending their children back to primary school in those areas today (Monday, January 3), following the concerning calls from Labour and unions over the weekend to close them.
The colour-coded PHE map charts infections using a seven-day rolling infection rate, expressed per 100,000 of the population.
As the new variant of COVID-19 spreads, yellow and green areas - those with rates of less than 100 per 100,000 - have been rapidly disappearing from the map and replaced with darker blotches, as the numbers rise.
That has also been true of the Bristol area, but there are still three areas under that category in the latest map.
Data is from the seven days up to December 29.
Here's a breakdown of the lowest cases in our area:
- Yate South: Suppressed (fewer than three cases)
Clevedon South & Yeo: 90.6 (seven cases)
Winterbourne: 94.5 (six cases)
This compares to Bristol's rate of 266.3 per 100,000 of the population, 270.8 in South Gloucestershire and 301.3 in North Somerset.
View the latest national data for your postcode on the online COVID-19 cluster map.
Nationally, the seven-day rate in England is currently at 476.9 per 100,000 people.
Bristol Live reports on coronavirus clusters in our area regularly, alternating those with the highest and those with the lowest.
The latest for the highest showed that Bradley Stoke Central recorded the largest infection rate, which was at 443.0.
Yesterday (Sunday) Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for an urgent national lockdown in a bid to "get the virus back under control".
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