The West Yorkshire areas where Covid rates are far higher than average

The coronavirus rolling rate is seven times higher than the national average in some wards in West Yorkshire, latest figures show.

Rates have plummeted across the country as a result of the lockdown and restrictions in place but in some areas, the case rate is still on the rise.

The current rolling rate for England is 66 but Heaton Highgate in Bradford’s rate is 462.3 which is almost seven times higher, according to the government’s data for the seven days to March 3.

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Also in Bradford, Frizinghall & Heaton Grove ward has a rate of 420.6 making it the second-highest in West Yorkshire and Brown Royd has the rate of 364.0, the third-highest in the county.

This news comes after schools in England reopened on Monday and the first steps out of lockdown were taken.

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, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that thanks to the “huge national effort to keep kids at home” the spread of coronavirus has been reduced significantly.

He warned the number of patients being admitted to hospital with Covid-19 each day is eight times higher than “the lows of last summer” – it is “more vital than ever” to follow the rules.

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We have put a list together of areas across West Yorkshire where the Covid-19 infection rate is more than double England’s average rolling rate – or even higher.

Bradford:

Clayton – 168.9 with 44.4 per cent increase from previous week
Horton Bank – 311 with 58.8 per cent increase from previous week
Buttershaw – 164.8 with 100 per cent increase from previous week
Wibsey St Enoch’s – 194 with 100 per cent increase from previous week
Great Horton & Brackenhill – 282.9 with 10.5 per cent increase from previous week
Bankfoot – 158.7 with 33.3 per cent decrease from previous week
Brown Royd – 364 with 7.4 per cent increase from previous week
Low Moor – 165.8 with 7.1 per cent decrease from previous week
Bowling Park – 264 with 25.9 per cent decrease from previous week
Canterbury – 285.9 with 33.3 per cent increase from previous week
Haigh Fold – 148.1 with 50 per cent increase from previous week
Eccleshill – 186.5 with no change from previous week
Ravenscliffe – 142.5 with 28.6 decrease from previous week
Laisterdyke & Bowling – 155 with 20 per cent decrease from previous week
Manningham & Lister Park – 245.5 with 9.5 per cent increase from previous week
Fairweather Green – 202.7 with 14.3 per cent decrease from previous week
Toller Lane & Infirmary – 191.2 with 25.9 per cent decrease from previous week
Heaton Highgate – 462.3 with 54.5 per cent increase from previous week
Frizinghall & Heaton Grove – 420.6 with 14.3 per cent increase from previous week
Cottingley, Harden & Wilsden – 147.4 with 6.2 per cent increase from previous week
Chellow Heights – 155.2 with 40.9 per cent decrease from previous week
Oakworth & Laycock – 142.1 with 57.1 decrease from previous week
Keighley Utley – 218.5 with 66.7 per cent increase from previous week
Keighley Central & East – 134.4 with 36 per cent decrease from previous week
Keighley South – 161.7 with 54.5 per cent decrease from previous week

Halifax:

Greetland & Stainland – 136.5
Savile Park – 140.4 with 11.1 per cent increase from previous week
King Cross – 161 with 10 per cent increase from previous week
Wheatley & Ovenden West – 153.3 with 40 per cent decrease from previous week
Illingworth & Ogden – 193 with 140 per cent increase from previous week

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Dewsbury:

Earlsheaton & Chickenley – 265.0 with 36.6 per cent decrease from previous week
Shaw Cross & Hanging Heaton – 228.3 with 55.6 per cent increase from previous week
Dewsbury Central & Westborough – 294.8 with 37.5 per cent increase from previous week
Dewsbury Moor Lower & Westtown – 199.7 with -12.5 per cent decrease from previous week
Dewsbury Savile Town & Thornhill Lees – 163.6 with 43.8 per cent decrease from previous week
Thornhill – 148.3 with 16.7 per cent decrease from previous week
Ravensthorpe – 162.1 with 21.2 per cent decrease from previous week

Leeds:

Armley & New Wortley – 295.2 and a 3.7 per cent decrease in cases from the previous week.
Cross Flats Park & Garnets – 224.9 and a 5.6 per cent decrease in cases from the previous week.
Meanwood South & Sugarwell – 210.6 and an 18.2 per cent increase in cases compared to the week before.
Holbeck – 170.2 with no change in cases compared to the week before.
Beeston Hill & Hunslet Moor – 146.7 and a 9.1 per cent decrease in cases from the previous week.
Gipton South & Killingbeck Park – 137.5 and a 33 per cent decrease in cases compared to the week before.

Huddersfield:

Lockwood – 215.5 with 28.6 per cent increase from the previous week
Crosland Moor – 187.1 with 133.3 per cent increase from the previous week

Wakefield:

Horbury – 208.5 with 7.1 per cent decrease from the previous week
Netherton & Middlestown – 236.8 with a 180 per cent increase from the previous week
Walton, Woolley & Bretton – 219.7 with a 40 per cent increase from the previous week
Agbrigg & Belle Isle – 276.8 with a 127.3 per cent increase from the previous week
Wrenthorpe & Kirkhamgate – 219.9 with 112.5 per cent increase from previous week
Kettlethorpe & Chapelthorpe – 193.7 with no change from the previous week
Alverthorpe & Flanshaw – 174.7 with 13.3 per cent increase from previous week
Lupset – 155.9 with 42.9 per cent change from previous week
Thornes – 148.3 with 28.6 per cent increase from previous week
Pontefract North West – 139.6 with 14.3 per cent decrease from previous week
Pontefract North East – 228.4 with 133.3 increase from previous week
Glasshoughton – 136.9 with 42.9 per cent increase from previous week
Knottingley – 223.1 with 39.1 decrease from previous week
Altofts – 152.8 with 12.5 increase from previous week
Upton – 270.0 with 41.7 per cent increase from previous week
South Kirkby – 208.1 with 6.2 decrease from previous week
Grimethorpe & Brierley – 257.7 with 25.9 decrease from previous week
Shafton & Upper Cudworth – 241.4 with 50 per cent increase from previous week
Ryhill & South Hiendley – 198.3 with 62.5 per cent increase from previous week
Kinsley & Fitzwilliam – 139.9 with 80 per cent increase from previous week
Hemsworth Town – 155.2 with 225 per cent increase from previous week
South Elmsall – 164.1 with 29.4 per cent decrease from previous week
Ossett North – 175.2 with 5.9 per cent decrease from previous week