Cumbria’s coronavirus infection rate has more than doubled in a week as Omicron continues to spread through the county.
In the latest seven-day period – the week ending December 23 – the county had an infection rate of 792.3 per 100,000, up from 365.2 per 100,0000 a week earlier.
There were 3,960 new cases of coronavirus in Cumbria during the latest weekly period.
Here are the areas in Cumbria with the highest rate of coronavirus infection. The number of weekly cases is accompanied by the rate per 100,000 in brackets:
- Parkside – 122 (1,865.2 per 100,000)
- Roose – 128 (1,666.4 per 100,000)
- Dalton South – 65 (1,175.6 per 100,000)
- Hawcoat & Furness Abbey – 116 (1,544.0 per 100,000)
- Hensingham, Hillcrest & Aikbank – 127 (1,284.4 per 100,000)
- Swarthmoor & Low Furness – 97 (1,262.5 per 100,000)
- Ulverston – 97 (1,210.8 per 100,000)
- Whitehaven Harbour & Corkickle – 63 (1,193.9 per 100,000)
- Dalton South – 65 (1,175.6 per 100,000)
- Walney Island South & Barrow Island – 71 (1,160.9 per 100,000)
- Harrington, Stainburn & Great Clifton – 76 (1,058.5 per 100,000)
- Mirehouse, Kells & Woodhouse – 114 (1,147.7 per 100,000)
- Walney Island North – 76 (1,141 per 100,000)
- Cleator Moor, Frizington & Ennerdale – 132 (1,132.4 per 100,000)
- Orsmgill & Hindpool – 72 (1,101.8 per 100,000)
- Abbotsmead & Salthouse – 78 (1,056.5 per 100,000)
- Workington West – 90 (1,026.6 per 100,000)
- Egremont & Moor Row – 78 (1,006.5 per 100,000)
- Burton-in-Kendal, Levens & Natland – 73 (1,000.3 per 100,000)
Deaths
There were three deaths in Cumbria where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate in the week ending December 10 – the latest data available.
Hospital admissions
As of December 21, there were four patients with coronavirus being treated by the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, which operates hospital sites including the Cumberland Infirmary and West Cumberland Hospital.
Included among those four patients are two who are on ventilation.
In the previous week’s figures, the trust was treating seven patients with coronavirus.
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, which runs hospitals in south Cumbria and north Lancashire, had 46 coronavirus patients during the same period – an increase of four from a week earlier.
Three of these patients were on ventilation.
