Liverpool's covid-19 infection rate has fallen once again - although the overall level remains dangerously high.
The number of cases has been dropping for several days in a row now - and that trend has continued in today's latest update.
The city's overall infection rate currently stands at 480.1 per 100,000, which is a small drop from yesterday's update when it stood at 487 per 100,000.
But the latest data covering testing up to October 24 show that the total number of confirmed cases for the last 7 days is 2,391 - a significant decrease of 601 cases on the previous week.
The continued decline in numbers may indicate that restrictions in the city are starting to take effect, with Liverpool and the wider city region under the highest Tier 3 lockdown measures.
The wards with the largest number of confirmed cases are Central (132 cases), Greenbank (116 cases), Norris Green (114 cases), Riverside (99 cases), Knotty Ash (97 cases), Kirkdale (95 cases), Picton (93 cases), Fazakerley (93 cases), Warbreck (92 cases), Allerton and Hunts Cross (89 cases) and Clubmoor (87 cases).
Health bosses have warned that while any drop in the city's infection levels is to be welcomed, the numbers are still very high.
And while falling overall, the seven-day rate of new infections in older people is very high, resulting in increased pressure on hospitals and deaths with Covid.
Sadly there have been more than 130 covid-19 deaths across the city's main NHS Trust in this month alone.
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And covid deaths continue to make up a large proportion of the city's overall death figures.
Between 20 - 26 October there were 200 registered deaths in Liverpool in total, of which 37% (74) were Covid-19 deaths.
