Cumbria continues to have a coronavirus infection rate significantly below the national average – despite the ongoing threat of the Omicron variant.
In the latest seven-day period – the week ending December 16 – the county had an infection rate of 365.2 per 100,000.
This compares to the England average of 803.1 per 100,000.
As of December 14 there were seven 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 seven patients is one who is on ventilation.
At the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, which runs hospitals in south Cumbria and north Lancashire, had 42 coronavirus patients during the same period.
Four of those were receiving ventilation.
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:
- Egremont & Moor Row – 51 (658.1 per 100,000)
- Hensingham, Hillcrest & Aikbank – 65 (657.4 per 100,000)
- Parkside – 39 (596.2 per 100,000)
- Burton-in-Kendal, Levens & Natland – 42 (575.5 per 100,000)
- Thornhill, Gosforth & Seascale – 49 (568.2 per 100,000)
- Abbotsmead & Salthouse – 39 (528.2 per 100,000)
- Dalton South – 29 (524.5 per 100,000)
- Orsmgill & Hindpool – 34 (520.3 per 100,000)
- Whitehaven Harbour & Corkickle – 27 (511.7 per 100,000)
- Walney Island North – 34 (510.4 per 100,000)
- Barrow Central – 33 (503.8 per 100,000)
