Six areas of Herefordshire are currently recording ‘very high’ rates of COVID-19, with cases rising again across the majority of the county.

Overall in Herefordshire, in the seven day period ending 13th March, a total of 1,409 people tested positive for COVID-19. This is an increase of 77.5% on the previous seven day period.

This is no surprise, with cases rising across much of the UK, with people mixing once again in large numbers with all restrictions now lifted in England.

The six areas of Herefordshire currently recording ‘very high’ levels of COVID-19 are as follows:

Ross-on-Wye – 94 new cases (COVID-19 infection rate of 838.9 cases per 100,000 population)

Kingstone & Kingsthorne – 114 new cases (COVID-19 infection rate of 1,001 cases per 100,000 population)

Credenhill, Weobley & Wellington – 105 new cases (COVID-19 infection rate of 1,086.4 cases per 100,000 population)

Lugwardine, Withington & Moreton on Lugg – 85 new cases (COVID-19 infection rate of 1,069.6 cases per 100,000 population)

Bromyard & Bishop’s Frome – 104 new cases (COVID-19 infection rate of 965.9 cases per 100,000 population)

Colwall, Cradley & Wellington Heath – 53 new cases (COVID-19 infection rate of 914 cases per 100,000 population.

In all honesty, cases are likely to be far higher than reported, with many people no longer regularly testing.

Source: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map/cases