Number of positive tests in Calderdale increase - but generally rates remain lower than earlier in summer

Hospital admissions with COVID were also down but the number of deaths of people who passed away within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test showed a big increase on the previous seven-day period.

Calderdale-wide Government figures – which were last updated on August 10 – show fewer tests were carried out.

The borough-wide Government figures show that between July 30, and August 5, 2022, ten people tested positive for the virus in Calderdale, a 66.7 per cent increase on the previous seven days.

Between August 1, 2022, and August 7, 2022, 66 people went into hospital with coronavirus, a 32 per cent decrease on the previous seven days.

There were 56 patients in hospital with coronavirus on August 9, 2022 – there were two patients in a hospital bed with a mechanical ventilator on the same date.

Between July 30, 2022, and August 5, 2022, seven people died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test – a 133.3 per cent decrease compared to the previous seven days.

Between August 3, 2022, and August 9, 2022, there were 3,806 COVID tests carried out, a decrease of 2.3 per cent compared to the previous seven days.

Todmorden West and Cornholme, 4 (case rate 42.0 per 100,000 people); Todmorden East and Walsden, 7 (122.6); Hebden Bridge, 6 (64.9); Mytholmroyd and Cragg Vale, 4 (46.8); Sowerby and Luddenden Foot, under three cases; Sowerby Bridge, 5 (53.9); Ripponden, Rishworth and Barkisland, 7 (80.2); Greetland and Stainland, 5 (52.8); Elland, 12 (114.7); Rastrick West, 8 (100.6); Rastrick East, 5 (85.7); Brighouse, 11 (139.8); Clifton and Bailiff Bridge, 8 (86.4); Hipperholme, 9 (142.9); Northowram and Shelf, 8 (83.6); Central Halifax and Boothtown, 5 (56.8); Illingworth and Ogden, 11 (176.4); Norton Tower and Mount Tabor, 6 (88.2); Mixenden, 6 (110.2); Wheatley and Ovenden West, 6 (77.3); Ovenden East, 5 (88.2); Southowram and Siddal, 7 (83.6); Pellon West and Highroad Well, 6 (66.9), Pellon East, under three cases; King Cross, under three cases; Savile Park, 6 (83.3); Skircoat Green, 10 (141.8).