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Jan 2021
District's average covid rate drops as 95 people test positive
It brings the total number of positive cases in the district to 4,575 since the pandemic began. The seven-day average infection rate for the district is now 161 per 100,000 people, a drop from yesterday's 198 but still higher than the previous day's 141.
A further 95 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours across the Harrogate district.
It brings the total number of positive cases in the district to 4,575 since the pandemic began.
The seven-day average infection rate for the district is now 161 per 100,000 people, a drop from yesterday's high of 198 but still higher than the previous day's 141.
The average rate for North Yorkshire as a whole is 222.8, with the Scarborough district at 243.7 and Richmondshire at 268. Hambleton's rate is the highest in the county, at 312.2.
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Statistics from the NHS show one covid patient has been admitted to Harrogate District Hospital in the last 24 hours, with eight over the last week.
On Thursday, the hospital reported it had 16 in-patients with covid, a rise of two from the previous week, and it had discharged 10 patients since Christmas Eve, bringing the total number discharged since the start of the pandemic to 324. Since March, 109 patients diagnosed with coronavirus have died at the hospital; the last of these was recorded on December 28.
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