There are simply 36 postcodes in England and Wales which have but to file a single Covid-19 dying.
Grim new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveal the heartbreaking impact the virus has had on communities throughout the UK.
There are 7,000 postcode areas in England and Wales. The Mirror studies that of the handful to not lose any residents, 11 are in Devon and 4 in Cornwall.
Tragically, no North East postcode has been spared.
Three areas of Bristol in addition to neighbourhoods in Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Camden, North London, have additionally not recorded one fatality since March final yr.
The UK’s coronavirus dying toll handed 122,000 after an extra 323 fatalities confirmed, however the general menace stage was lowered by well being service bosses.
Tragic figures reveal {that a} neighbourhood in Sheffield, Yorkshire, has recorded the highest variety of deaths in the pandemic, adopted by an space in Hastings in Sussex.
Data collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals that 36 of seven,209 postcode areas haven’t suffered a single pandemic since March final yr.
The 36 areas with no coronavirus deaths
According to ONS, there are 36 areas which haven’t recorded a single Covid dying since March.
They are:
- Fitzjohns & Royal Free, Camden
- Woodside, Telford & Wrekin
- Bristol City Centre, Bristol
- Hotwells, Bristol
- Hartcliffe, Bristol
- Tamerton Foliot, Plymouth
- Tylers Green, Wycombe
- (*36*) & Castle, Cambridge
- Bar Hill & Boxworth, South Cambridgeshire
- Mid Saltash, Cornwall
- Torpoint, Cornwall
- Grampound Road, St Newlyn East and Cubert, Cornwall
- Crackington & Tintagel, Cornwall
- Dunkesewll, Upottery & Stockland, East Devon
- Illfracombe East, North Devon
- Barnstable Sticklepath, North Devon
- Fremington & Instow, North Devon
- Wembury, Brixton & Newton Ferrers, South Hams
- Salcombe, Malborough & Thurlstone, South Hams
- Tedburn, Shillingford & Higher Ashton, Teignbridge
- Heathfield & Liverton, Teignbridge
- Teignmouth North, Teignbridge
- Great Torrington, Torridge
- Bere Alston, Buckland Monachorum & Yelverton, West Devon
- Bicester North, Cherwell
- Eynsham & Stanton Harcourt, West Oxfordshire
- Dunster, Dulverton & Exmoor, West Somerset
- Trowbridge West, Wiltshire
- Isles of Scilly, Isles of Scilly
- Weston (*10*), North Somerset
- Leeds City Centre, Leeds
- Castlefield & Deansgate, Manchester
- Pier Head, Liverpool
- Bangor City, Gwynedd
- Llandudno Junction South & Llasanffraid Glan Conwy, Conwy
- Rhyl South West, Denbighshire
It comes as the UK’s Covid-19 alert stage was lowered as the threat of the NHS being overwhelmed by instances of the virus has receded.
The Chief Medical Officers and NHS Medical Director have agreed to cut back the alert stage from 5 to 4 in gentle of latest knowledge.
NHS Director Professor Stephen Powis, alongside with chief medical officers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, mentioned in an announcement that hospitals are nonetheless “below vital stress”.
They added: “We needs to be below no illusions – transmission charges, hospital pressures and deaths are nonetheless very excessive.
“In time, the vaccines could have a serious influence and we encourage everybody to get vaccinated after they obtain the supply.”
Crabtree & Fir Vale, an space in Sheffield, Yorkshire, has misplaced the highest variety of residents, with 72 confirmed Covid deaths.
In April final yr alone, the neighbourhood recorded 38 deaths, with 26 the following month.
The 10 areas in England and Wales with the highest variety of Covid deaths
- Crabtree & Fir Vale, Sheffield – 72
- West St Leonards, Hastings – 62
- Hadleigh, Babergh – 57
- Tonyrefail West, Rhondda – 55
- Friern Barnet, Barnet – 54
- Haywards Heath West, Mid Sussex – 54
- Ilkley & Ben Rhydding, Bradford – 50
- Chalkwell, Southend-on-Sea – 50
- Sutton & Crosshills, Craven – 50
- Sandfields, Neath Port Talbot – 50
Yesterday, The Mirror reported the variety of cities and cities in England the place Covid charges are rising is creeping up – amid warnings over “lockdown fatigue”.
Latest Public Health England knowledge reveals week-on-week rises in infections in 69 of the nation’s 315 native authority areas.
This is regardless of an enormous drop in new instances nationally, with the variety of individuals testing optimistic for Covid-19 falling by greater than 15 per cent in the previous week.
