Coronavirus figures have risen in more than two thirds of wards across Liverpool.
Cllr Frazer Lake, Liverpool Council cabinet member for social care and health, told a select committee that 21 of the city’s 30 wards had seen a rise in Covid-19 cases.
This is despite vaccination figures increasing, with more than 22,000 jabs given out across Liverpool in the last two months.
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Cllr Lake said hospital admissions and the take up of beds at city hospitals had also been on the rise since January, and encouraged people to remain cautious and to continue with personal safety measures.
The cabinet member said 71.6% of people in Liverpool had received a first dose of the Covid vaccine, with 65.8% twice jabbed.
The number of people fully jabbed stands at 46.9%, up 2.3% since January.
Members of the committee also discussed the impact the virus had had on the city since March 2020 as a mortality report for the last two years was presented.
The document, compiled by Sophie Kelly, lead public health epidemiologist, detailed how 1,700 deaths had been attributed upto last month - 17% of all deaths in Liverpool during that period.
Cllr Nathalie Nicholas, committee deputy chair, said the findings were “quite depressing” and it had been “like a double whammy” when taken into consideration with health and economic inequalities.
She added: “We can look at how to engage our communities better.”
Committee chair Cllr Roz Gladden, said she was “quite shocked” by the report and the virus was always likely to impact the city badly.
She said the next 12 months in terms of recovery would be “interesting” and called for more work to be done to identify the prevalence of so-called long Covid.
Ms Kelly said the number of deaths had since increased and it was linked to testing.
She said the daily figures were being closely monitored moving forward.
Cllr Liz Parsons said that while the figures were “really depressing” the report had been “better than expected” which was credit to the city’s public health services and local community groups.
A vaccination bus is continuing to operate across Liverpool, having provided 48 community outreach events across 18 different locations last year, with more than 10,000 people vaccinated on board – many of whom would not have been vaccinated otherwise.
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