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Jul 2021
Harrogate district coronavirus rate falls for first time after record highs
The district's weekly infection rate has dropped sharply to 441 cases per 100,000 people after peaking last week at 533.
The Harrogate district’s coronavirus infection rate has fallen sharply for the first time this summer after last week reaching record levels.
In an encouraging trend that is mirrored across North Yorkshire, the borough’s weekly rate has dropped to 441 cases per 100,000 people after peaking at 533.
The latest rate equates to an average of just over 100 new infections per day. Just 57 cases were recorded today by Public Health England.
Unlike previous waves, high case rates have not translated into large numbers of infected people being admitted to hospital, with just three patients in Harrogate hospital as of last Wednesday.
That figure has remained low thanks to high levels of vaccine take-up – and there has not been a covid-related death reported by the hospital in over three months.
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A total of 122,457 people in the Harrogate district have now received their first vaccine dose and 103,067 people their second.
Meanwhile, the infection rate across North Yorkshire as a whole now stands at 472 per 100,000 people, ahead of the England average of 446.
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