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Three Bedfordshire areas have now been highlighted as Covid ‘blackspots’, according to the latest weekly statistics.
On the government’s interactive coronavirus map, areas are given a colour relating to their level of infection.
The highest category is for areas with rates of 800 and above, which are marked in black, meaning they are then labelled ‘blackspots’ in each county.
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Ampthill, part of Leighton Buzzard, and Barnfield in Luton have all seen above 800 new cases per 100,000 population in the week to November 28.
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Meanwhile, many other Bedfordshire areas experience high rates, with all three authorities – Bedford, Luton, and Central Bedfordshire – being above the UK average of 439.7 new cases per 100,000 people.
The current dominant coronavirus strain in the country is Delta, but scientists fear that the emerging Omicron variant is more infectious and can, to an extent, evade vaccines.
Evidence shows that more than half of Omicron cases in England are in the double jabbed, as the government announced the booster dose would be extended to all adults.
Cases in the United Kingdom amounted to 294,930 in the seven days to November 28 – the latest tranche of data.
The highest case rate in Bedfordshire was in Ampthill & Millbrook, which saw 84 new cases – or 940.1 per 100,000 people.
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This was 26 more cases from the previous seven-day period.
The next ‘blackspot’ was in Leighton Buzzard South East, with 824.1 cases per 100,000 people.
The area recorded 114 new cases in the week to November 28, 39 more from the week before.
Cases in Barnfield, north Luton, more than doubled in the same period, totalling 81, up by 30.
Data used in the map contains: MSOA names (Open Parliament copyright and database right 2020), Ordnance Survey data (Crown copyright and database right 2020), Royal Mail data (Royal Mail copyright and database right 2020), Public Health England data (Crown copyright and database right 2020–2021), Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.
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