The number of people testing positive for coronavirus in Bristol and the surrounding area continues to be low and relatively stable.
In the 24 hours to 4pm, the positive tests of 11 people were confirmed by the Department of Health – slightly up on Thursdays nine, but around the average relatively low figure it has been for most of May.
Four new cases were reported in South Gloucestershire in the past 24 hours, and six new cases in North Somerset.
No new deaths were recorded – the last person to die within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test in Bristol was at the beginning of May, and only a handful of people remain in hospital with the virus this week.
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The latest weekly case rate, for Bristol shows the picture of the virus spread in the seven days up to May 16 – last Sunday. Bristols case rate per 100,000 people is 14.2, which is slightly below the national average of 20.5.
North Somersets case rate is just 6 cases per 100,000, well below the national average, while the case rate in South Gloucestershire is 8.1.
The Department of Healths figures shows that, in the seven days to last Sunday, 66 people tested positive for Covid-19 in Bristol, and 18 of them live in St Pauls.
This area had been seeing negligible levels of the virus for the past month, with new case numbers so low – less than three a week – that the Government statistics didnt even register them.
In the first week of May, just two new positive cases of covid-19 were recorded in St Paul’s, but last week, the numbers of people testing positive for the virus jumped to 18 – putting St Pauls case rate at 133.7, which is well above the national average.
Its still a lot lower than some areas like Blackburn, Bolton and Bedford, where localised outbreaks have been put down to the new Indian variant, but health bosses in Bristol will have been monitoring the numbers in St Pauls after such a marked increase.
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The breakdown of cases in localised areas of the city are always five days behind the daily total for the whole of Bristol, and the good news is that the increase in cases in St Paul’s does not appear to have continued increasing this week, city-wide.