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Oct 2021
Harrogate district continues to set new coronavirus rate record
The Harrogate district's coronavirus seven day rate continues to climb after it hit a record high earlier this week.
According to latest Public Health England figures, the district average has increased to 580 cases per 100,000 people.
The North Yorkshire rate stands at 470 and the England average is 339.
However, just nine patients are being treated for coronavirus at Harrogate District Hospital. That number has remained much lower during previous waves before the vaccination programme.
No further deaths from patients who tested positive for coronavirus have been recorded at Harrogate District Hospital.
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Elsewhere, 128,232 people have received a first covid vaccine in the Harrogate district and 120,511 have had a second dose.
North Yorkshire’s director of public health, Louise Wallace, said this week that the spike in covid cases is down to “school-age children”.
She also said it was “quite unusual” that the county’s infection rate had climbed above the England average.
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