More than 1000 new coronavirus cases were recorded in South Lanarkshire last week.
Figures published by Public Health Scotland revealed there were 1052 new cases of the virus between Sunday, January 3, and Saturday, January 9 - up by 20 per cent on the previous week.
Case numbers in the region are at the highest in two months as 3.28 cases were recorded for every 1000 residents.
Last week, the Hamilton area saw the most cases at 334 while East Kilbride and Avondale saw more new cases than at any point in 2020 as 332 positive tests were recorded.
Rutherglen and Cambuslang saw 248 new Covid-19 cases last week while 138 were recorded in Clydesdale - the second highest for the region on record.
Rutherglen and Cambuslang had the highest rate of new cases last week at 3.94 per 1000 residents while rates in Hamilton area (3.3) and East Kilbride and Avondale (3.47) were lower.
Clydesdale (2.27) was the only region to see less than three cases per 1000 people last week.
Low Waters in Hamilton was the region's coronavirus hotspot last week after 18 people in the neighbourhood tested positive for the virus.
That equates to 6.55 cases for every 1000 residents, slightly higher than the 6.06 cases per 1000 residents in Douglas, Coalburn and Rigside where 26 new positive Covid-19 tests were recorded.
Halfway, Hallside and Drumsagard as well as Westburn and Newton both recorded 36 new cases last week - the highest of any neighbourhood in South Lanarkshire.
Burnbank North (24), Calderwood East (20), Calderwood West and Nerston (21), Little Earnock (24), Nerston and EK Landward area (23), Uddingston and Gardenside (20), Westwood South (24), Whitehills West (21) and Vicarland and Cairns (22) all also recorded at least 20 new cases last week.
Breakdown of cases by neighbourhood:
Hamilton area
- Ashgill and Netherburn - 8 (2.65 per 1000)
- Blantyre North and Coatshill - 12 (4.09)
- Blantyre South and Wheatlands - 15 (3.49)
- Bothwell North - 11 (3.53)
- Bothwell South - 16 (4.74)
- Burnbank Central and Udston - 14 (3.05)
- Burnbank North - 24 (4.91)
- Burnbank South and Chantinghall - 12 (3.18)
- Earnock - 3 (0.74)
- Eddlewood - 14 (3.98)
- Glassford, Quarter and Allanton - 3 (0.7)
- Hamilton Centre and Low Parks - 14 (3.35)
- Hareleeshill - 4 (1)
- High Blantyre - 14 (3.73)
- Hillhouse - 10 (2.44)
- Laighstonehall - 10 (2.76)
- Larkhall Central, Raploch, Millheugh and Burnhead - 13 (3.42)
- Little Earnock - 24 (3.54)
- Low Blantyre and Bardykes - 19 (5.79)
- Low Waters - 18 (6.55)
- Merryton and Meadowhill - 11 (3.38)
- Silvertonhill - 7 (2.49)
- Strutherhill - 12 (3.4)
- Uddingston and Gardenside - 20 (2.99)
- Whitehill - 17 (4.32)
- Woodhead and Meikle Earnock - 9 (3.3)
Clydesdale
- Biggar, Symington, Thankerton and Dolphinton - 4 (0.68 per 1000)
- Carluke East - 10 (2.45)
- Carluke North - 0-2*
- Carluke South - 7 (2.06)
- Carluke West - 4 (1.42)
- Carstairs, Carstairs Junction and Carnwath - 8 (1.67)
- Clydesdale South - 6 (2.46)
- Crossford, Braidwood and Yieldshields - 7 (2.59)
- Douglas, Coalburn and Rigside - 26 (6.06)
- Forth, Braehead and Auchengray - 6 (1.68)
- Hazelbank and Kirkfieldbank - 10 (2.52)
- Kirkmuirhill and Blackwood - 4 (0.94)
- Lanark North East - 11 (5.04)
- Lanark North West - 12 (4.6)
- Lanark South - 9 (2.32)
- Law - 6 (1.63)
- Lesmahagow - 6 (1.59)
East Kilbride and Avondale
- Birniehill, Kelvin and Whitehills East - 18 (4.6 per 1000)
- Calderwood Central - 14 (3.77)
- Calderwood East - 20 (5.64)
- Calderwood West and Nerston - 21 (5.12)
- Chapelton, Glengavel and Sandford - 8 (2.24)
- Crosshouse and Lindsayfield - 11 (2.05)
- East Mains - 11 (3.56)
- Greenhills - 14 (4.59)
- Hairmyres and Westwood West - 16 (4.21)
- Mossneuk and Newlandsmuir - 3 (1.15)
- Nerston and EK Landward area - 23 (3.11)
- St Leonards North - 12 (2.49)
- St Leonards South - 19 (4.29)
- Stewartfield East - 8 (3.04)
- Stewartfield West - 17 (4.24)
- Stonehouse - 7 (1.21)
- Strathaven North 0-2*
- Strathaven South - 8 (1.74)
- The Murray - 17 (4.75)
- Thorntonhall, Jackton and Gardenhall - 13 (3.06)
- West Mains - 11 (3.73)
- Westwood East - 14 (4.05)
- Westwood South - 24 (5.77)
- Whitehills West - 21 (5.21)
Rutherglen and Cambuslang
- Bankhead South - 14 (4.62 per 1000)
- Burgh, Eastfield and Silverbank - 19 (3.4)
- Burnhill and Bankhead North - 12 (3.63)
- Burnside and Springhall - 14 (3.21)
- Cambuslang Central - 8 (2.11)
- Fairhill - 6 (2.95)
- Farme Cross and Gallowflat North - 18 (5.22)
- Fernhill and Cathkin - 13 (2.86)
- Halfway, Hallside and Drumsagard - 36 (4.62)
- High Crosshill - 15 (4)
- Shawfield and Clincarthill - 12 (3.43)
- Spittal - 7 (2.5)
- Vicarland and Cairns - 22 (5.33)
- Westburn and Newton - 36 (5.7)
- Whitlawburn and Greenlees - 16 (3.47)
