Wirral’s great progress against covid-19 is continuing, as all but one of its wards have got cases down to single figures.
In the week up to March 19, just Bidston and St James (12 cases), recorded double-figures, with the other 21 council wards recording nine cases or below.
After Bidston and St James, the only other wards to register more than five cases were Clatterbridge (9), Leasowe and Moreton East (8), Rock Ferry (7), Birkenhead and Tranmere (6) and Liscard (6).
Compared to last week, the numbers show a clear fall. In the week up to March 12, seven Wirral wards had double-figure case numbers.
In a simple analysis of rises and falls, seven wards recorded more cases than last week, one ward saw no change, but cases fell in 14 wards.
Another important measure of the virus is the positivity rate, that is the percentage of tests which come back as positive.
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In the weekly round-up, the rate stood at 1.0%. As well as being down on the 1.8% figure recorded last week, it is the lowest Wirral has registered since August 21 last year.
The very latest figures for Wirral as a whole, which cover the week up to March 21, show that 98 cases were recorded at a rate of 30 per 100,000.
That is down from 123 cases at a rate of 38 per 100,000 recorded in the previous week.
While there have been some increases of late in a day-to-day comparison of case numbers, the overall trend remains one of decline.
The number of people being treated for the virus in Wirral’s hospitals is also continuing to fall, easing the burden on the NHS.
Across the rest of the Liverpool City Region, the latest numbers revealed a mixed picture.
Infection numbers fell in Liverpool, St Helens and Sefton on a week-by-week comparison, but went up in Halton and Knowsley, albeit only slightly.
In Liverpool, the infection rate fell from 53 per 100,000 to 38 per 100,000, while St Helens’ rate decreased from 80 to 60.
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Sefton recorded a fall from 56 to 46.
But the infection rate increased in Halton, from 60 to 63, while Knowsley’s rate climbed from 44 to 46.
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