A suburb in North Bristol currently has the highest Covid rate in the city. Four areas have seen a sharp increase in cases recently, with the city centre and an inner city suburb surprisingly seeing the lowest cases.
The Upper Easton area has seen cases decrease by 65 per cent over the last week. There have been just seven cases of coronavirus reported in the area.
Similarly, Bristol city centre has seen a 58 per cent decrease in Covid cases over the last week, with just 20 cases reported. There is currently a case rate of 100.4 cases per 100,000 people across Bristol city centre.
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The North Bristol suburb of Bishopston has seen the greatest increase of Covid cases over the last week. The cases have risen by 33% to 60 - a case rate of 473 per 100,000 people.
Other areas with the highest Covid rates across Bristol are Westbury-on-Trym, Speedwell and Kingswood South. Westbury-on-Trym have seen 28 cases over the past week - an increase of 12%.
Speedwell has 39 new cases - an increase of 39%. And Kingswood South has seen 48 new cases, up 29%.
As more people visit the coast across summer, the coastal towns of Portishead and Clevedon are also hotspots for Covid cases across the Bristol area, with cases over 400 per 100,000.
Across England, 150,591 people have tested positive for Coronavirus over the last week. There have been 908 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in England over the last week.
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