Student areas in Nottingham were among the worst-hit places in England during the second wave of Covid-19.
Figures showing some of the areas hardest hit by coronavirus between September and April reveal the Arboretum, Forest & Trent University, The Park & Castle and Lenton & Dunkirk among the locations, MailOnline reports.
Dr Simon Clarke, a microbiologist at the University of Reading, told MailOnline how students may have higher rates because they live in large, mixed households and often use public transport – but added it was impossible to know whether the fact they were students actually made Covid outbreaks worse.
Nottingham's Covid rate soared at the beginning of the academic term in October - at one point getting to the highest rate of infection in the whole country.
A total of 2,931 new cases were recorded in Nottingham in the seven days to October 10 last year – the equivalent of 880.4 cases per 100,000.
The MSOA areas with the most positive tests relative to their population between the start of September and the end of April were:
- Fallowfield Central (Manchester) – 2,202 cases (18 per cent)
- Durham City – 2,492 (17 per cent)
- Hyde Park (Leeds) – 1,382 (16 per cent)
- Sheppey East (Kent) – 1,401 (16 per cent)
- The Park & Castle (Nottingham) – 1,331 (16 per cent)
- Bastwell (Blackburn) – 1,154 (15 per cent)
- Little Harwood (Blackburn) – 1,408 (15 per cent)
- Hyde Park Corner & Woodhouse Cliff (Leeds) – 2,051 (15 per cent)
- Arboretum, Forest & Trent University (Nottingham) – 1,883 (14 per cent)
- Lenton & Dunkirk (Nottingham) – 1,521 (14 per cent)
