Coronavirus cases in South Lanarkshire increased by more than 60 per cent in the first week after Christmas.
Figures published by Public Health Scotland revealed there were 891 new cases of the virus between Sunday, December 27, and Saturday, January 2 - up from 552 in the previous week.
Case numbers in the region are at the highest in two months as 2.78 cases were recorded for every 1000 residents.
Last week, the Hamilton area saw the most cases at 281 while 242 positive tests were recorded in Rutherglen and Cambuslang.
Data for some neighbourhoods which saw less than three new Covid-19 cases last week in Clydesdale and East Kilbride and Avondale was suppressed, however there were at least 102 cases recorded in Clydesdale and 263 in East Kilbride and Avondale.
Rutherglen and Cambuslang had the highest rate of new cases last week 3.84 per 1000 residents while rates in Hamilton area (2.78), East Kilbride and Avondale (2.75-2.78) and Clydesdale (1.68-1.73) were lower.
Burnhill and Bankhead North was the region's coronavirus hotspot last week after 35 people in the neighbourhood tested positive for the virus.
That equates to 10.58 cases for every 1000 residents - almost double the rate of the second highest neighbourhood in South Lanarkshire.
Crosshouse and Lindsayfield (24), Glassford, Quarter and Allanton (24), Halfway, Hallside and Drumsagard (21), Little Earnock (29), Nerston and EK Landward area (27), Uddingston and Gardenside (24), Vicarland and Cairns (22) and Westburn and Newton (28) all recorded at least 20 new cases last week.
Biggar, Symington, Thankerton and Dolphinton saw the most new cases in Clydesdale last week at 15.
Breakdown of cases by neighbourhood:
Hamilton area
- Ashgill and Netherburn - 5 (1.66 per 1,000)
- Blantyre North and Coatshill - 6 (2.04)
- Blantyre South and Wheatlands - 8 (1.86)
- Bothwell North - 9 (2.89)
- Bothwell South - 14 (4.15)
- Burnbank Central and Udston - 18 (3.92)
- Burnbank North - 12 (2.46)
- Burnbank South and Chantinghall - 7 (1.86)
- Earnock - 3 (0.74)
- Eddlewood - 10 (2.84)
- Glassford, Quarter and Allanton - 24 (5.57)
- Hamilton Centre and Low Parks - 17 (4.07)
- Hareleeshill - 3 (0.75)
- High Blantyre - 15 (4)
- Hillhouse - 10 (2.44)
- Laighstonehall - 11 (3.04)
- Larkhall Central, Raploch, Millheugh and Burnhead - 4 (1.05)
- Little Earnock - 29 (4.28)
- Low Blantyre and Bardykes - 6 (1.83)
- Low Waters - 5 (1.82)
- Merryton and Meadowhill - 9 (2.76)
- Silvertonhill - 3 (1.07)
- Strutherhill - 11 (3.12)
- Uddingston and Gardenside - 24 (3.58)
- Whitehill - 6 (1.52)
- Woodhead and Meikle Earnock - 12 (4.4)
Clydesdale
- Biggar, Symington, Thankerton and Dolphinton - 15 (2.57 per 1,000)
- Carluke East - 5 (1.22)
- Carluke North - 6 (2.46)
- Carluke South - 0-2*
- Carluke West - 5 (1.77)
- Carstairs, Carstairs Junction and Carnwath - 6 (1.26)
- Clydesdale South - 0-2*
- Crossford, Braidwood and Yieldshields - 7 (2.59)
- Douglas, Coalburn and Rigside - 7 (1.63)
- Forth, Braehead and Auchengray - 4 (1.12)
- Hazelbank and Kirkfieldbank - 14 (3.53)
- Kirkmuirhill and Blackwood - 10 (2.35)
- Lanark North East - 4 (1.83)
- Lanark North West - 0-2*
- Lanark South - 6 (1.55)
- Law - 5 (1.36)
- Lesmahagow - 5 (1.32)
East Kilbride and Avondale
- Birniehill, Kelvin and Whitehills East - 10 (2.55 per 1,000)
- Calderwood Central - 6 (1.61)
- Calderwood East - 9 (2.54)
- Calderwood West and Nerston - 7 (1.71)
- Chapelton, Glengavel and Sandford - 9 (2.52)
- Crosshouse and Lindsayfield - 24 (4.47)
- East Mains - 9 (2.91)
- Greenhills - 18 (5.91)
- Hairmyres and Westwood West - 15 (3.95)
- Mossneuk and Newlandsmuir - 0-2*
- Nerston and EK Landward area - 27 (3.65)
- St Leonards North - 10 (2.07)
- St Leonards South - 10 (2.26)
- Stewartfield East - 12 (4.57)
- Stewartfield West - 13 (3.24)
- Stonehouse - 3 (0.52)
- Strathaven North - 0-2*
- Strathaven South - 13 (2.83)
- The Murray - 12 (3.35)
- Thorntonhall, Jackton and Gardenhall - 12 (2.83)
- West Mains - 7 (2.37)
- Westwood East - 12 (3.48)
- Westwood South - 14 (3.37)
- Whitehills West - 10 (2.48)
Rutherglen and Cambuslang
- Bankhead South - 16 (5.28)
- Burgh, Eastfield and Silverbank - 19 (3.4)
- Burnhill and Bankhead North - 35 (10.58)
- Burnside and Springhall - 10 (2.29)
- Cambuslang Central - 19 (5.01)
- Fairhill - 8 (3.93)
- Farme Cross and Gallowflat North - 15 (4.35)
- Fernhill and Cathkin - 13 (2.86)
- Halfway, Hallside and Drumsagard - 21 (2.7)
- High Crosshill - 10 (2.66)
- Shawfield and Clincarthill - 11 (3.14)
- Spittal - 3 (1.07)
- Vicarland and Cairns - 22 (5.33)
- Westburn and Newton - 28 (4.43)
- Whitlawburn and Greenlees - 12 (2.61)
*Where a neighbourhood has fewer than three cases this is being presented as 0-2 to help protect patient confidentiality.
