This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities...
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT
    • Politics
    • Transport
    • Lifestyle
    • Community
    • Business
    • Crime
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Education
    • Sport
    • Harrogate
    • Ripon
    • Knaresborough
    • Boroughbridge
    • Pateley Bridge
    • Masham
  • What's On
  • Offers
  • Newsletter
  • Podcasts

Interested in advertising with us?

Advertise with us

  • News & Features
  • Your Area
  • What's On
  • Offers
  • Newsletter
  • Podcasts
  • Politics
  • Transport
  • Lifestyle
  • Community
  • Business
  • Crime
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Education
  • Sport
Advertise with us
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Latest News

We want to hear from you

Tell us your opinions and views on what we cover

Contact us
Connect with us
  • About us
  • Advertise your job
  • Correction and complaints
Download on App StoreDownload on Google Play Store
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Statement
  • Comments Participation T&Cs
Trust In Journalism

Copyright © 2020 The Stray Ferret Ltd, All Rights Reserved

Site by Show + Tell

Subscribe to trusted local news

In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever. By subscribing, you can help us get the story right.

  • Subscription costs less than £1 a week with an annual plan.

Already a subscriber? Log in here.

20

Sept 2020

Last Updated: 20/09/2020

Number of covid cases in the Harrogate district rises to 919

by Tamsin O'Brien

| 20 Sept, 2020
Comment

0

Nine more people in the district have tested positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours bringing the total to more than 900..

nhs-staff-at-harrogate-nightingale-hospital-17

Nine more people in the Harrogate district have tested positive for coronavirus, according to the latest daily figure by Public Health England.

The figure takes the total number of cases in the district to 919.

Despite the increase, Harrogate was not among the places in North Yorkshire has not been named as an ‘area of concern’ by Public Health England.




Read more:



  • District MPs decline to comment on "broken" covid testing system

  • Strayside Sunday: Why covid testing should be devolved to local authorities






Everywhere, Selby District Council and Scarborough Borough Council were identified as areas of concern due to a rise in coronavirus cases.

The North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum, which is a group of organisations that coordinates the county’s response to coronavirus, said during the week it was concerned about rising infection rates in Harrogate.

But the town has so far been spared any extra measures amid rising concerns nationally about the increase in infections.