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Jan 2021
Two Harrogate district villages show big covid spike
The number of new covid cases in Killinghall and Hampsthwaite is more than double that of anywhere else in the Harrogate district.
North Yorkshire County Council statistics today revealed a total of 62 cases have been recorded in the two villages in the last seven days.
The next highest sub-districts locally are Ripon South and East and Starbeck, which both have had 28 cases.
The figure for Killinghall and Hampsthwaite is second in all of North Yorkshire only to Malton and Norton, which has registered 63 infections.
It comes as a further 39 infections were recorded in the district, according to today’s Public Health England data.
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It takes the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to 6,392.
Meanwhile, the district’s seven-day covid rate has fallen to 245 people per 100,000.
The county-wide rate is 222 and the national average stands at 382.
No further deaths from patients who tested positive for coronavirus have been reported at Harrogate District Hospital, according to NHS England figures.
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