Coronavirus infection numbers in Sefton have more than halved in the past two weeks.
The borough’s infection rate has fallen to 311 new cases per 100,000 people in the week ending February 1.
Two weeks prior to this, in the week ending January 18, Sefton’s covid infection rate was a staggering 678 per 100,000 people.
Every other borough in the Liverpool City Region has also seen a significant decline in cases this week.
Knowsley has Merseyside’s highest rate – 452 per 100,000.
Liverpool’s rate is now 310, while Wirral has the Liverpool City Region’s lowest infection rate, at 256 per 100,000.
For government data collection purposes, Sefton is divided into 38 neighbourhoods.
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All but five of these saw a decline in infection rates in the week ending January 31.
The area known as Hesketh Park is currently Sefton’s worst impacted neighbourhood.
Its infection rate stands at 694 per 100,000 people. This is an 11% increase from the previous week.
Other areas which saw an increase in infection rates are Southport Kew, Hightown and Thornton, Blundellsands, and Netherton South.
The least impacted of Sefton’s neighbourhoods is currently Formby South East and Ince Blundell, where there were seven new cases reported over seven days.
This is down from 21 in the previous week – and gives the area a current infection rate of 126 per 100,000 people.
Other neighbourhoods with rates that are lower than 200 include Formby West and Freshfield North, and Orrell.
Earlier this week, a new South African variant of the virus was found in a number of places across the country, one of which was the Norwood area of Southport.
Thousands of home testing kits are being delivered to addresses in the area, while a mobile testing unit has been set up at the former Kew Park and Ride site.
